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User experience (UX) is a part of human-computer interaction (HCI) research and focuses on increasing intuitiveness, transparency, simplicity, and trust for the system users. Most UX research for machine learning (ML) or natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Anastasia Zhukova , Lukas von Sperl , Christian E. Matt , Bela Gipp

Taller and sleeker smartphone devices are becoming the new norm. More screen space and very responsive touchscreens have made for enjoyable experiences available to us at all times. However, after years of interacting with smaller, portable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Kriti Nelavelli , Thomas Ploetz

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents extend large language models from text generation to action execution in real-world digital environments. Unlike conversational systems, GUI agents perform irreversible operations such as submitting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yucheng Shi , Wenhao Yu , Jingyuan Huang , Wenlin Yao , Wenhu Chen , Ninghao Liu

As mobile applications (apps) become ubiquitous in everyday life, it is crucial for developers to prioritize accessibility for users with diverse abilities. While previous research has identified widespread accessibility issues and raised…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Amila Indika , Rick Kazman , Anthony Peruma

The ubiquity of mobile phones makes mobile GUI understanding an important task. Most previous works in this domain require human-created metadata of screens (e.g. View Hierarchy) during inference, which unfortunately is often not available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Jingwen Fu , Xiaoyi Zhang , Yuwang Wang , Wenjun Zeng , Sam Yang , Grayson Hilliard

Along with the rapid development of information technology, the amount of information generated at a given time far exceeds human's ability to organize, search, and manipulate without the help of automatic systems. Now a days so many tools…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Urmila Shrawankar , Anjali Mahajan

Machine learning models have been trained to predict semantic information about user interfaces (UIs) to make apps more accessible, easier to test, and to automate. Currently, most models rely on datasets that are collected and labeled by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jason Wu , Rebecca Krosnick , Eldon Schoop , Amanda Swearngin , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Jeffrey Nichols

Recent advances in foundation models, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), have facilitated the development of intelligent agents capable of performing complex tasks. By leveraging the…

Testing is the most direct and effective technique to ensure software quality. Test scripts always play a more important role in mobile app testing than test cases for source code, due to the GUI-intensive and event-driven characteristics…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Jia Liu , Zhenyu Chen

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

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into mobile applications has significantly transformed various domains, enhancing user experiences and providing personalized services through advanced machine learning (ML) and deep learning…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yinghua Li , Xueqi Dang , Haoye Tian , Tiezhu Sun , Zhijie Wang , Lei Ma , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

The packaging model of Android apps requires the entire code necessary for the execution of an app to be shipped into one single apk file. Thus, an analysis of Android apps often visits code which is not part of the functionality delivered…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Li Li , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein , Yves Le Traon

While many students now interact with web apps across a variety of smart devices, the vast majority of our Nifty Assignments still present traditional user interfaces such as console input/output and desktop GUI. In this tutorial session,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Kevin Lin , Sumant Guha , Joe Spaniac , Andy Zheng

Mobile phones have been closed environments until recent years. The change brought by open platform technologies such as the Symbian operating system and Java technologies has opened up a significant business opportunity for anyone to…

For graphical user interface (UI) design, it is important to understand what attracts visual attention. While previous work on saliency has focused on desktop and web-based UIs, mobile app UIs differ from these in several respects. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Luis A. Leiva , Yunfei Xue , Avya Bansal , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Tuğçe Köroğlu , Niraj R. Dayama , Antti Oulasvirta

We propose a method to make mobile screenshots easily searchable. In this paper, we present the workflow in which we: 1) preprocessed a collection of screenshots, 2) identified script presentin image, 3) extracted unstructured text from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sumit Kumar , Gopi Ramena , Manoj Goyal , Debi Mohanty , Ankur Agarwal , Benu Changmai , Sukumar Moharana

Smartphones with large screens provide users with increased display and interaction space but pose challenges in reaching certain areas with the thumb when using the device with one hand. To address this, we introduce GazeSwipe, a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Zhuojiang Cai , Jingkai Hong , Zhimin Wang , Feng Lu

Understanding user interface (UI) functionality is a useful yet challenging task for both machines and people. In this paper, we investigate a machine learning approach for screen correspondence, which allows reasoning about UIs by mapping…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Jason Wu , Amanda Swearngin , Xiaoyi Zhang , Jeffrey Nichols , Jeffrey P. Bigham

A lot of sensor network applications are data-driven. We believe that query is the most preferred way to discover sensor services. Normally users are unaware of available sensors. Thus users need to pose different types of query over the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-08-21 A. F. M. Sultanul Kabir , Mohammad Saiful Islam Mamun

In this paper we investigate the effect of long-term GUI changes occurring during application development on the reusability of existing GUI test cases. We conduct an empirical evaluation on two complex, open-source GUI-driven applications…

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