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User reviews of mobile apps often contain complaints or suggestions which are valuable for app developers to improve user experience and satisfaction. However, due to the large volume and noisy-nature of those reviews, manually analyzing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Phong Minh Vu , Tam The Nguyen , Hung Viet Pham , Tung Thanh Nguyen

The proliferation of mobile applications and the subsequent sharing of personal data with service and application providers have given rise to substantial privacy concerns. Application marketplaces have introduced mechanisms to conform to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Joao Marono , Catarina Silva , Joao P. Barraca , Vitor Cunha , Paulo Salvador

We explore a new domain of learning to infer user interface attributes that helps developers automate the process of user interface implementation. Concretely, given an input image created by a designer, we learn to infer its implementation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Philippe Schlattner , Pavol Bielik , Martin Vechev

With the emergence of deep learning techniques, smartphone apps are now embedded on-device AI features for enabling advanced tasks like speech translation, to attract users and increase market competitiveness. A good interaction design is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Jason Ching Yuen Siu , Jieshan Chen , Yujin Huang , Zhenchang Xing , Chunyang Chen

Despite being one of the largest and most popular projects, the official Android framework has only provided test cases for less than 30% of its APIs. Such a poor test case coverage rate has led to many compatibility issues that can cause…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Xiaoyu Sun , Xiao Chen , Yanjie Zhao , Pei Liu , John Grundy , Li Li

AI agents have drawn increasing attention mostly on their ability to perceive environments, understand tasks, and autonomously achieve goals. To advance research on AI agents in mobile scenarios, we introduce the Android Multi-annotation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yuxiang Chai , Siyuan Huang , Yazhe Niu , Han Xiao , Liang Liu , Dingyu Zhang , Shuai Ren , Hongsheng Li

Fingerprint verification and identification algorithms based on minutiae features are used in many biometric systems today (e.g., governmental e-ID programs, border control, AFIS, personal authentication for portable devices). Researchers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-09 Mehmet Kayaoglu , Berkay Topcu , Umut Uludag

Developers are increasingly integrating Language Models (LMs) into their mobile apps to provide features such as chat-based assistants. To prevent LM misuse, they impose various restrictions, including limits on the number of queries, input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Muhammad Ibrahim , Gűliz Seray Tuncay , Z. Berkay Celik , Aravind Machiry , Antonio Bianchi

Mobile applications rely on complex backends that introduce significant security risks, yet developers often lack the tools to assess these risks effectively. This paper presents AndroScanner, an automated pipeline for detecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Harini Dandu

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

Many apps have basic accessibility issues, like missing labels or low contrast. Automated tools can help app developers catch basic issues, but can be laborious or require writing dedicated tests. We propose a system, motivated by a…

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Operating Systems · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mayank Goel , Gourav Singal

As GUI agents increasingly rely on screenshots to perceive and operate digital environments, they may inadvertently expose sensitive information such as identities, accounts, locations, and behavioral traces. While existing benchmarks…

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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

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

The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior and intent of recent types of privacy invasive Android adware. There are two recent trends in this area: more financial motives instead of ego motives, and the development of more dynamic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Emre Erturk

The increasing attraction of mobile apps has inspired researchers to analyze apps from different perspectives. As with any software product, apps have different attributes such as size, content maturity, rating, category, or number of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Maleknaz Nayebi , Homayoon Farrahi , Ada Lee , Henry Cho , Guenther Ruhe

Deep learning has emerged as a promising technology for achieving Android malware detection. To further unleash its detection potentials, software visualization can be integrated for analyzing the details of app behaviors clearly. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhaoyi Meng , Jiale Zhang , Jiaqi Guo , Wansen Wang , Wenchao Huang , Jie Cui , Hong Zhong , Yan Xiong

With the ever-growing interest in the area of mobile information retrieval and the ongoing fast development of mobile devices and, as a consequence, mobile apps, an active research area lies in studying users' behavior and search queries…

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