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As mobile app usage continues to rise, so does the generation of extensive user interaction data, which includes actions such as swiping, zooming, or the time spent on a screen. Apps often collect a large amount of this data and claim to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Feiyang Tang , Bjarte M. Østvold

With the recent growth of conversational systems and intelligent assistants such as Apple Siri and Google Assistant, mobile devices are becoming even more pervasive in our lives. As a consequence, users are getting engaged with the mobile…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Hamed Zamani , Fabio Crestani , W. Bruce Croft

Numerous accessibility features have been developed and included in consumer operating systems to provide people with a variety of disabilities additional ways to access computing devices. Unfortunately, many users, especially older adults…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Jason Wu , Gabriel Reyes , Sam C. White , Xiaoyi Zhang , Jeffrey P. Bigham

The process of developing a mobile application typically starts with the ideation and conceptualization of its user interface. This concept is then translated into a set of mock-ups to help determine how well the user interface embodies the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Carlos Bernal-Cardenas , Kevin Moran , Michele Tufano , Zichang Liu , Linyong Nan , Zhehan Shi , Denys Poshyvanyk

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

Graphical User Interface (GUI) has become one of the most significant parts of mobile applications (apps). It is a direct bridge between mobile apps and end users, which directly affects the end user's experience. Neglecting GUI quality can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Ziyuan Tuo , Quanjun Zhang , Chunyang Chen , Zhenyu Chen , Zhendong Su

Augmented Reality (AR) technology creates new immersive experiences in entertainment, games, education, retail, and social media. AR content is often primarily visual and it is challenging to enable access to it non-visually due to the mix…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Jaylin Herskovitz , Jason Wu , Samuel White , Amy Pavel , Gabriel Reyes , Anhong Guo , Jeffrey P. Bigham

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

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

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

Extracting semantic representations from mobile user interfaces (UI) and using the representations for designers' decision-making processes have shown the potential to be effective computational design support tools. Current approaches rely…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Seokhyeon Park , Wonjae Kim , Young-Ho Kim , Jinwook Seo

Screen recordings of mobile applications are easy to obtain and capture a wealth of information pertinent to software developers (e.g., bugs or feature requests), making them a popular mechanism for crowdsourced app feedback. Thus, these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Nathan Cooper , Kevin Moran , Oscar Chaparro , Andrian Marcus , Denys Poshyvanyk

Approximately 15% of the world's population is suffering from various disabilities or impairments. However, many mobile UX designers and developers disregard the significance of accessibility for those with disabilities when developing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yuxin Zhang , Sen Chen , Lingling Fan , Chunyang Chen , Xiaohong Li

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

Mobile software apps ("apps") are one of the prevailing digital technologies that our modern life heavily depends on. A key issue in the development of apps is how to design gender-inclusive apps. Apps that do not consider gender inclusion,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Mojtaba Shahin , Mansooreh Zahedi , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Ali Rezaei Nasab

In today's digitized world, software systems must support users in understanding both how to interact with a system and why certain behaviors occur. This study investigates whether explanation needs, classified from user reviews, can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Martin Obaidi , Kushtrim Qengaj , Jakob Droste , Hannah Deters , Marc Herrmann , Jil Klünder , Elisa Schmid , Kurt Schneider

In this paper, we explore mobile app use as a behavioral biometric identifier. While several efforts have also taken on this challenge, many have alluded to the inconsistency in human behavior, resulting in updating the biometric template…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Md A. Noor , G. Kaptan , V. Cherukupally , P. Gera , T. Neal

Privacy, security, and accessibility, like ethical concerns in mobile applications (a.k.a. apps), commonly subsumed under non-functional requirements, are generally reported by users through app reviews available in app stores. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Aakash Sorathiya , Gouri Ginde

In this paper we list the sensors commonly available in modern smartphones and provide a general outlook of the different ways these sensors can be used for modeling the interaction between human and smartphones. We then provide a taxonomy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Alejandro Acien , Aythami Morales , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Julian Fierrez

Prior works have shown that the list of apps installed by a user reveal a lot about user interests and behavior. These works rely on the semantics of the installed apps and show that various user traits could be learnt automatically using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Jagdish Prasad Achara , Gergely Acs , Claude Castelluccia