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This work designs, evaluates, and improves a proposed search engine interface for Visually Impaired VI users to efficiently perform web search activities. Our conceptual modeling technique is based on Formal Concept Analysis FCA that is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Aboubakr Aqle , Kamran Khowaja , Dena Al-Thani

Mobile phones and tablets have become the most widely used computing devices, with a large predominance of the Android platform. As a natural evolution, the development of Android applications has surged and has become a major field of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Franz-Xaver Geiger , Ivano Malavolta

Smartphones are now ubiquitous, yet our understanding of user interface factors that maximize mobile user experience (UX), is still limited. This work presents a controlled experiment, which investigated factors that affect the usability…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Lasse Einfeldt , Auriol Degbelo

User interaction behavior is a valuable source of implicit relevance feedback. In Web image search a different type of search result presentation is used than in general Web search, which leads to different interaction mechanisms and user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Xiaohui Xie , Jiaxin Mao , Maarten de Rijke , Ruizhe Zhang , Min Zhang , Shaoping Ma

Advances in mobile applications providing image classification enabled by Deep Learning require innovative User Experience solutions in order to assure their adequate use by users. To aid the design process, usability heuristics are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim , Gustavo Dirschnabel

GUI automation faces critical challenges in dynamic environments. MLLMs suffer from two key issues: misinterpreting UI components and outdated knowledge. Traditional fine-tuning methods are costly for app-specific knowledge updates. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Bin Xie , Rui Shao , Gongwei Chen , Kaiwen Zhou , Yinchuan Li , Jie Liu , Min Zhang , Liqiang Nie

Smartphones have significantly enhanced our daily learning, communication, and entertainment, becoming an essential component of modern life. However, certain populations, including the elderly and individuals with disabilities, encounter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Kelin Fu , Yang Tian , Kaigui Bian

Android Apps are frequently updated, every couple of weeks, to keep up with changing user, hardware and business demands. Correctness of App updates is checked through extensive testing. Recent research has proposed tools for automated GUI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Chao Peng , Ajitha Rajan

Mobile applications (a.k.a., apps), which facilitate a large variety of tasks on mobile devices, have become indispensable in our everyday lives. Accomplishing a task may require the user to navigate among various apps. Unlike Web pages…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Ziniu Hu , Yun Ma , Qiaozhu Mei , Jian Tang

Oracles used for testing graphical user interface (GUI) programs are required to take into consideration complicating factors such as variations in screen resolution or color scheme when comparing observed GUI elements to expected GUI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Dalal Hammoud , Fadi A. Zaraket , Wes Masri

Some object-oriented GUI toolkits tangle state management with rendering. Functional shells and observable toolkits like GUI Easy simplify and promote the creation of reusable views by analogy to functional programming. We have successfully…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-31 D. Ben Knoble , Bogdan Popa

User feedback is crucial for the evolution of mobile apps. However, research suggests that users tend to submit uninformative, vague, or destructive feedback. Unlike recent AI4SE approaches that focus on generating code and other…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jialiang Wei , Ali Ebrahimi Pourasad , Walid Maalej

Natural language descriptions of user interface (UI) elements such as alternative text are crucial for accessibility and language-based interaction in general. Yet, these descriptions are constantly missing in mobile UIs. We propose widget…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Yang Li , Gang Li , Luheng He , Jingjie Zheng , Hong Li , Zhiwei Guan

It is necessary to improve the concepts of the present web based graphical user interface for the development of more flexible and intelligent interface to provide ease and increase the level of comfort at user end like most of the desktop…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2010-11-16 Zeeshan Ahmed , Vasil Popov

In this paper user modeling task is examined by processing a gallery of photos and videos on a mobile device. We propose novel engine for user preference prediction based on scene recognition, object detection and facial analysis. At first,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 A. V. Savchenko , K. V. Demochkin , I. S. Grechikhin

The present paper introduces the initial implementation of a software exploration tool targeting graphical user interface (GUI) driven applications. GUITracer facilitates the comprehension of GUI-driven applications by starting from their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Arthur-Jozsef Molnar

Visual analysis of relational data is essential for many real-world analytics tasks, with layout quality being key to interpretability. However, existing layout algorithms often require users to navigate complex parameters to express their…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Hasan Balci , Augustin Luna

Before developing a new mobile 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 risks and provides…

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

Graphical User Interface (GUI) action grounding is a critical step in GUI automation that maps language instructions to actionable elements on GUI screens. Most recent works of GUI action grounding leverage large GUI datasets to fine-tune…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yue Fan , Handong Zhao , Ruiyi Zhang , Yu Shen , Xin Eric Wang , Gang Wu

Despite recent progress, Graphic User Interface (GUI) agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with complex mobile tasks due to limited app-specific knowledge. While UI Transition Graphs (UTGs) offer structured navigation…