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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

Automation of existing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) is important but hard to achieve. Upstream of making the GUI user-accessible or somehow scriptable, even the data-collection to understand the original interface poses significant…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Iason Chaimalas , Arnas Vyšniauskas , Gabriel Brostow

Existing Graphical User Interface (GUI) reasoning tasks remain challenging, particularly in UI understanding. Current methods typically rely on direct screen-based decision-making, which lacks interpretability and overlooks a comprehensive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Songze Li , Xiaoke Guo , Tianqi Liu , Biao Yi , Zhaoyan Gong , Zhiqiang Liu , Huajun Chen , Wen Zhang

Recent developments in the mobile app industry have resulted in various types of mobile apps, each targeting a different need and a specific audience. Consequently, users access distinct apps to complete their information need tasks. This…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Fabio Crestani , Theo Huibers , Monica Landoni , Emiliana Murgia , Maria Soledad Pera

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…

AI agents operating on user interfaces must understand how interfaces communicate state and feedback to act reliably. As a core communicative modality, animations are increasingly used in modern interfaces, serving critical functional…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Chen Liang , Xirui Jiang , Naihao Deng , Eytan Adar , Anhong Guo

The inception of a mobile app often takes form of a mock-up of the Graphical User Interface (GUI), represented as a static image delineating the proper layout and style of GUI widgets that satisfy requirements. Following this initial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Kevin Moran , Boyang Li , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Dan Jelf , Denys Poshyvanyk

This paper sets out a process of app analysis intended to support understanding of use but also redesign. From usage logs we infer activity patterns - Markov models - and employ probabilistic formal analysis to ask questions about the use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Oana Andrei , Muffy Calder , Matthew Chalmers , Alistair Morrison , Mattias Rost

Mobile exploration is a longstanding challenge in robotics, yet current methods primarily focus on active perception instead of active interaction, limiting the robot's ability to interact with and fully explore its environment. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yixuan Wang , Leonor Fermoselle , Tarik Kelestemur , Jiuguang Wang , Yunzhu Li

With the rising interest in Virtual Reality and the fast development and improvement of available devices, new features of interactions are becoming available. One of them that is becoming very popular is hand tracking, as the idea to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons , Tanja Kojić , Danish Ali , Sebastian Möller

The applications of generative AI have become extremely impressive, and the interplay between users and AI is even more so. Current human-AI interaction literature has taken a broad look at how humans interact with generative AI, but it…

Gamification applies game mechanics to non-game environments to motivate and engage users. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers powerful tools for personalizing and optimizing gamification, adapting to users' needs, preferences, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Carlos J. Costa , Joao Tiago Aparicio , Manuela Aparicio , Sofia Aparicio

Situated visualization blends data into the real world to fulfill individuals' contextual information needs. However, interacting with situated visualization in public environments faces challenges posed by user acceptance and contextual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Qian Zhu , Zhuo Wang , Wei Zeng , Wai Tong , Weiyue Lin , Xiaojuan Ma

In the video game industry, great importance is given to the experience that the user has while playing a game. In particular, this experience benefits from the players' perceived sense of being in the game or immersion. The level of user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Marika Malaspina , Jessica Amianto Barbato , Marco Cremaschi , Francesca Gasparini , Alessandra Grossi , Aurora Saibene

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) bring human-AI interaction to the forefront of HCI research. This paper argues that games are an ideal domain for studying and experimenting with how humans interact with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Jichen Zhu , Jennifer Villareale , Nithesh Javvaji , Sebastian Risi , Mathias Löwe , Rush Weigelt , Casper Harteveld

While mobile social apps have become increasingly important in people's daily life, we have limited understanding on what motivates users to engage with these apps. In this paper, we answer the question whether users' in-app activity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Yozen Liu , Xiaolin Shi , Lucas Pierce , Xiang Ren

In this paper, we define visual log of a software system as data capturing the interactions between its users and its graphic user interface (GUI), such as screen-shots and screen recordings. We vision that mining such visual log could be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Hung Pham , Tam Nguyen , Phong Vu , Tung Nguyen

Data-driven approaches which aim to identify and predict player engagement are becoming increasingly popular in games industry contexts. This is due to the growing practice of tracking and storing large volumes of in-game telemetries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Valerio Bonometti , Charles Ringer , Mark Hall , Alex R. Wade , Anders Drachen

Contour maps are an essential tool for exploring spatial features of the terrain, such as distance, directions, and surface gradient among the contour areas. User interactions in contour-based visualizations create approaches to visual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Abdullah-Al-Raihan Nayeem , Dongyun Han , William J. Tolone , Isaac Cho

Given the importance of understanding the interaction between mobile devices and their users, app usage patterns have been studied in various contexts. However, prior work has not fully investigated longitudinal changes to app usage…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Dohyun Kim , Joshua Gluck , Malcolm Hall , Yuvraj Agarwal