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State-of-the-art multimodal web agents, powered by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), can autonomously execute many web tasks by processing user instructions and interacting with graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Current strategies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Gaurav Verma , Rachneet Kaur , Nishan Srishankar , Zhen Zeng , Tucker Balch , Manuela Veloso

Modeling tap or click sequences of users on a mobile device can improve our understandings of interaction behavior and offers opportunities for UI optimization by recommending next element the user might want to click on. We analyzed a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Xin Zhou , Yang Li

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

Query understanding plays a key role in exploring users' search intents and facilitating users to locate their most desired information. However, it is inherently challenging since it needs to capture semantic information from short and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Juanhui Li , Yao Ma , Wei Zeng , Suqi Cheng , Jiliang Tang , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin

Developing and testing user interfaces (UIs) and training AI agents to interact with them are challenging due to the dynamic and diverse nature of real-world mobile environments. Existing methods often rely on cumbersome physical devices or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jiannan Xiang , Yun Zhu , Lei Shu , Maria Wang , Lijun Yu , Gabriel Barcik , James Lyon , Srinivas Sunkara , Jindong Chen

In recent years, foundational models have revolutionized the fields of language and vision, demonstrating remarkable abilities in understanding and generating complex data; however, similar advances in user behavior modeling have been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jiahui Gong , Jingtao Ding , Fanjin Meng , Chen Yang , Hong Chen , Zuojian Wang , Haisheng Lu , Yong Li

Large language models can produce powerful contextual representations that lead to improvements across many NLP tasks. Since these models are typically guided by a sequence of learned self attention mechanisms and may comprise undesired…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Benjamin Hoover , Hendrik Strobelt , Sebastian Gehrmann

Mobile device agent based on Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) is becoming a popular application. In this paper, we introduce Mobile-Agent, an autonomous multi-modal mobile device agent. Mobile-Agent first leverages visual perception…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Junyang Wang , Haiyang Xu , Jiabo Ye , Ming Yan , Weizhou Shen , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Jitao Sang

Modeling user interfaces (UIs) from visual information allows systems to make inferences about the functionality and semantics needed to support use cases in accessibility, app automation, and testing. Current datasets for training machine…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Jason Wu , Siyan Wang , Siman Shen , Yi-Hao Peng , Jeffrey Nichols , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have led to the creation of intelligent agents capable of performing complex tasks. This paper introduces a novel LLM-based multimodal agent framework designed to operate smartphone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Chi Zhang , Zhao Yang , Jiaxuan Liu , Yucheng Han , Xin Chen , Zebiao Huang , Bin Fu , Gang Yu

A user can be represented as what he/she does along the history. A common way to deal with the user modeling problem is to manually extract all kinds of aggregated features over the heterogeneous behaviors, which may fail to fully represent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Chang Zhou , Jinze Bai , Junshuai Song , Xiaofei Liu , Zhengchao Zhao , Xiusi Chen , Jun Gao

There has been a widespread emergence of computing devices in the past few years that go beyond the capabilities of traditional desktop computers. However, users want to use the same kinds of applications and access the same data and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mir Farooq Ali , Manuel A. Perez-Quinones , Eric Shell , Marc Abrams

Recent work has highlighted the potential of modelling interactive behaviour analogously to natural language. We propose interactive behaviour summarisation as a novel computational task and demonstrate its usefulness for automatically…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Guanhua Zhang , Mohamed Ahmed , Zhiming Hu , Andreas Bulling

Agents centered around Large Language Models (LLMs) are now capable of automating mobile device operations for users. After fine-tuning to learn a user's mobile operations, these agents can adhere to high-level user instructions online.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Tinghe Ding

Mobile sensing plays a crucial role in generating digital traces to understand human daily lives. However, studying behaviours like mood or sleep quality in smartphone users requires carefully designed mobile sensing strategies such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Nan Gao , Zhuolei Yu , Yue Xu , Chun Yu , Yuntao Wang , Flora D. Salim , Yuanchun Shi

There is a growing demand for mobile user interface (UI) automation, driven by its broad applications across industries. With the advent of visual language models (VLMs), GUI automation has progressed from generating text-based instructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Neeraj Anand , Rishabh Jain , Sohan Patnaik , Balaji Krishnamurthy , Mausoom Sarkar

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

Modeling visual search not only offers an opportunity to predict the usability of an interface before actually testing it on real users, but also advances scientific understanding about human behavior. In this work, we first conduct a set…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Arianna Yuan , Yang Li

The Arabic language is a morphologically rich language with relatively few resources and a less explored syntax compared to English. Given these limitations, Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks like Sentiment Analysis (SA), Named…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Wissam Antoun , Fady Baly , Hazem Hajj

User profiling has long been an important problem that investigates user interests in many real applications. Some recent works regard users and their interacted objects as entities of a graph and turn the problem into a node classification…

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