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Understanding how players interact with the mobile game app on smartphone devices is important for game experts to develop and refine their app products. Conventionally, the game experts achieve their purposes through intensive user studies…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Quan Li , Haipeng Zeng , Zhenhui Peng , Xiaojuan Ma

Graphical User Interface (GUI) is ubiquitous in almost all modern desktop software, mobile applications, and online websites. A good GUI design is crucial to the success of the software in the market, but designing a good GUI which requires…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Tianming Zhao , Chunyang Chen , Yuanning Liu , Xiaodong Zhu

In the mobile development process, creating the user interface (UI) is highly resource intensive. Consequently, numerous studies have focused on automating UI development, such as generating UI from screenshots or design specifications.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yi Gao , Xing Hu , Tongtong Xu , Xin Xia , Xiaohu Yang

Walking along trails in natural areas is a rewarding experience, but visitors sometimes need proper assistance to enhance their enjoyment, maximize learning, and ensure safety. Over the years, various signage techniques have been…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Augusto Ciuffoletti

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

GUI-based models extracted from Android app execution traces, events, or source code can be extremely useful for challenging tasks such as the generation of scenarios or test cases. However, extracting effective models can be an expensive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Mario Linares-Vasquez , Martin White , Carlos Bernal-Cardenas , Kevin Moran , Denys Poshyvanyk

Inspirational search, the process of exploring designs to inform and inspire new creative work, is pivotal in mobile user interface (UI) design. However, exploring the vast space of UI references remains a challenge. Existing AI-based UI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Seokhyeon Park , Yumin Song , Soohyun Lee , Jaeyoung Kim , Jinwook Seo

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

Mobile graphical user interface (GUI) agents enable AI models to autonomously operate smartphones on behalf of users. However, most existing systems focus primarily on optimizing task accuracy and rely on cloud-hosted models for inference,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Runxi Huang , Liyu Zhang , Shengzhong Liu , Xiaomin Ouyang

With the increasing interconnection of smart devices, users often desire to adopt the same app on quite different devices for identical tasks, such as watching the same movies on both their smartphones and TVs. However, the significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Han Hu , Ruiqi Dong , John Grundy , Thai Minh Nguyen , Huaxiao Liu , Chunyang Chen

Mobile applications (apps) are integral to our daily lives, offering diverse services and functionalities. They enable sighted users to access information coherently in an extremely convenient manner. However, it remains unclear if visually…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Mengxi Zhang , Huaxiao Liu , Yuheng Zhou , Chunyang Chen , Pei Huang , Jian Zhao

A mobile app interface usually consists of a set of user interface modules. How to properly design these user interface modules is vital to achieving user satisfaction for a mobile app. However, there are few methods to determine design…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Jingbo Zhou , Zhenwei Tang , Min Zhao , Xiang Ge , Fuzhen Zhuang , Meng Zhou , Liming Zou , Chenglei Yang , Hui Xiong

Mobile apps provide new opportunities to people with disabilities to act independently in the world. Motivated by this trend, researchers have conducted empirical studies by using the inaccessibility issue rate of each page (i.e., screen…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Sen Chen , Chunyang Chen , Lingling Fan , Mingming Fan , Xian Zhan , Yang Liu

The design process of user interfaces (UIs) often begins with articulating high-level design goals. Translating these high-level design goals into concrete design mock-ups, however, requires extensive effort and UI design expertise. To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Forrest Huang , Gang Li , Xin Zhou , John F. Canny , Yang Li

GUI agents hold significant potential to enhance the experience and efficiency of human-device interaction. However, current methods face challenges in generalizing across applications (apps) and tasks, primarily due to two fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yuchen Sun , Shanhui Zhao , Tao Yu , Hao Wen , Samith Va , Mengwei Xu , Yuanchun Li , Chongyang Zhang

Seniors represent a growing user base for mobile applications; however, many apps fail to adequately address their accessibility challenges and usability preferences. To investigate this issue, we conducted an exploratory focus group study…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Shavindra Wickramathilaka , John Grundy , Kashumi Madampe , Omar Haggag

Software applications have been playing an increasingly important role in various aspects of society. In particular, mobile apps and web apps are the most prevalent among all applications and are widely used in various industries as well as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Xin Li , Yuchen Ling , Zhenyu Chen , Zhendong Su

Context: Visual aesthetics is increasingly seen as an essential factor in perceived usability, interaction, and overall appraisal of user interfaces especially with respect to mobile applications. Yet, a question that remains is how to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Christiane G. von Wangenheim , João V. Araujo Porto , Jean C. R. Hauck , Adriano F. Borgatto

Mobile apps are now ubiquitous. Before developing a new app, the development team usually endeavors painstaking efforts to review many existing apps with similar purposes. The review process is crucial in the sense that it reduces market…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Sen Chen , Lingling Fan , Chunyang Chen , Ting Su , Wenhe Li , Yang Liu , Lihua Xu

Automated understanding of user interfaces (UIs) from their pixels can improve accessibility, enable task automation, and facilitate interface design without relying on developers to comprehensively provide metadata. A first step is to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jason Wu , Xiaoyi Zhang , Jeff Nichols , Jeffrey P. Bigham