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Highly customized graphical user interfaces play a major role in today's software applications. There exist many technologies that support developing them. But these technologies demand writing a significant amount of unintuitive code to…

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Recent advancements in GUI agents have significantly expanded their ability to interpret natural language commands to manage software interfaces. However, acquiring GUI data remains a significant challenge. Existing methods often involve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xiangwu Guo , Difei Gao , Mike Zheng Shou

Issue tracking systems serve as the primary tool for incorporating external users and customizing a software project to meet the users' requirements. However, the limited number of contributors and the challenge of identifying the best…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Joy Krishan Das , Saikat Mondal , Chanchal K. Roy

Software visualizations are usually realized as standalone and isolated tools that use embedded code viewers within the visualization. In the context of program comprehension, only few approaches integrate visualizations into code editors,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Alexander Krause-Glau , Wilhelm Hasselbring

The performance and generalization of foundation models for interactive systems critically depend on the availability of large-scale, realistic training data. While recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have improved GUI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Sofiya Garkot , Maksym Shamrai , Ivan Synytsia , Mariya Hirna

This paper proposes a novel visual model for web applications security monitoring. Although an automated intrusion detection system can shield a web application from common attacks, it usually cannot detect more complicated break-ins. So, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Tran Tri Dang , Tran Khanh Dang

Recent progress on deep learning has made it possible to automatically transform the screenshot of Graphic User Interface (GUI) into code by using the encoder-decoder framework. While the commonly adopted image encoder (e.g., CNN network),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Zhihao Zhu , Zhan Xue , Zejian Yuan

In recent years, spatial computing a.k.a. Extended Reality (XR) has emerged as a transformative technology, offering users immersive and interactive experiences across diversified virtual environments. Users can interact with XR apps…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Shuqing Li , Binchang Li , Yepang Liu , Cuiyun Gao , Jianping Zhang , Shing-Chi Cheung , Michael R. Lyu

Despite the rapid progress of multimodal large language models in building Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents, their real-world task completion is fundamentally bottlenecked by a lack of world knowledge about GUI operations. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zheng Wu , Chengcheng Han , Zhengxi Lu , Tianjie Ju , Yanyu Chen , Qi Gu , Xunliang Cai , Zhuosheng Zhang

GUI design is an integral part of software development. The process of designing a mobile application typically starts with the ideation and inspiration search from existing designs. However, existing information-retrieval based, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Sidong Feng , Chunyang Chen , Zhenchang Xing

The limitation of graphical user interface (GUI) data has been a significant barrier to the development of GUI agents today, especially for the desktop / computer use scenarios. To address this, we propose an automated GUI data generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yibin Xu , Liang Yang , Hao Chen , Hua Wang , Zhi Chen , Yaohua Tang

Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are central to app development projects. App developers may use the GUIs of other apps as a means of requirements refinement and rapid prototyping or as a source of inspiration for designing and improving…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jialiang Wei , Anne-Lise Courbis , Thomas Lambolais , Binbin Xu , Pierre Louis Bernard , Gérard Dray , Walid Maalej

This paper introduces an automated heuristic process able to achieve high accuracy when matching graphical user interface widgets across multiple versions of a target application. The proposed implementation is flexible as it allows full…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Arthur-Jozsef Molnar

To ensure app compatibility and smoothness of user experience across diverse devices and platforms, developers have to perform cross-device, cross-platform testing of their apps, which is laborious. There comes a recently increasing trend…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Mulong Xie , Jiaming Ye , Zhenchang Xing , Lei Ma

In this paper we describe EasyInterface, an open-source toolkit for rapid development of web-based graphical user interfaces (GUIs). This toolkit addresses the need of researchers to make their research prototype tools available to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Jesús Doménech , Samir Genaim , Einar Broch Johnsen , Rudolf Schlatte

Sketching out Graphical User Interface (GUI) layout is part of the pipeline of designing a GUI and a crucial task for the success of a software application. Arranging all components inside a GUI layout manually is a time-consuming task. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Andrey Sobolevsky , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Jinghui Cheng , Jin L. C. Guo

Software testing is a fundamental process of software development, and prior work has shown that visualizations of test results support testers' decision-making. However, Human-Computer Interaction research on software testing has yet to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Brandon Lit , Anthony Maocheia-Ricci , Thomas Driscoll

The use of applications on computers, smartphones, and tablets has been considerably simplied thanks to interactive and dynamic graphical interfaces coupled with the mouse and touch screens. It is no longer necessary to be a computer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Michel Adam , Patrice Frison , Moncef Daoud , Sabine Letellier Zarshenas

Pursuing human-like interaction for Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents requires understanding the GUI context and following user instructions. However, existing works typically couple these two aspects and focus more on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Huawen Shen , Chang Liu , Gengluo Li , Xinlong Wang , Yu Zhou , Can Ma , Xiangyang Ji

Representing the semantics of GUI screens and components is crucial to data-driven computational methods for modeling user-GUI interactions and mining GUI designs. Existing GUI semantic representations are limited to encoding either the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Toby Jia-Jun Li , Lindsay Popowski , Tom M. Mitchell , Brad A. Myers