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Voice assistants have become quite popular lately while in parallel they are an important part of smarthome systems. Through their voice assistants, users can perform various tasks, control other devices and enjoy third party services. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Georgios Germanos , Dimitris Kavallieros , Nicholas Kolokotronis , Nikolaos Georgiou

Virtual assistants have been widely used by mobile phone users in recent years. Although their capabilities of processing user intents have been developed rapidly, virtual assistants in most platforms are only capable of handling…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Mengyu Chen , Zhenchang Xing , Jieshan Chen , Chunyang Chen , Qinghua Lu

The radical advances in telecommunications and computer science have enabled a myriad of applications and novel seamless interaction with computing interfaces. Voice Assistants (VAs) have become a norm for smartphones, and millions of VAs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Domna Bilika , Nikoletta Michopoulou , Efthimios Alepis , Constantinos Patsakis

Screen recordings are becoming increasingly important as rich software artifacts that inform mobile application development processes. However, the amount of manual effort required to extract information from these graphical artifacts can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Madeleine Havranek , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Nathan Cooper , Oscar Chaparro , Denys Poshyvnayk , Kevin Moran

The Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as smart speakers can collect sensitive user data, necessitating the need for users to manage their privacy preferences. However, configuring these preferences presents users with multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Bayan Al Muhander , Omer Rana , Charith Perera

Voice authentication is drawing increasing attention and becomes an attractive alternative to passwords for mobile authentication. Recent advances in mobile technology further accelerate the adoption of voice biometrics in an array of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Linghan Zhang , Jie Yang

Voice Assistant (VA) in smartphones has become very popular with millions of users nowadays. A key trend is the rise of custom VA embedding, which enables users to perform the customized tasks of their favorite app through voice control.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Garrett Weaver , Xue Qin

Hand interactions are increasingly used as the primary input modality in immersive environments, but they are not always feasible due to situational impairments, motor limitations, and environmental constraints. Speech interfaces have been…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Chen Liang , Yuxuan Liu , Martez Mott , Anhong Guo

The paper introduces Hands-Free VR, a voice-based natural-language interface for VR. The user gives a command using their voice, the speech audio data is converted to text using a speech-to-text deep learning model that is fine-tuned for…

Voice assistants have sharply risen in popularity in recent years, but their use has been limited mostly to simple applications like music, hands-free search, or control of internet-of-things devices. What would it take for voice assistants…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Alyssa Hwang , Natasha Oza , Chris Callison-Burch , Andrew Head

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…

Virtual assistants, also known as intelligent conversational systems such as Google's Virtual Assistant and Apple's Siri, interact with human-like responses to users' queries and finish specific tasks. Meanwhile, existing recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Dimitrios Rafailidis , Yannis Manolopoulos

We present a dialogue elicitation study to assess how users envision conversations with a perfect voice assistant (VA). In an online survey, N=205 participants were prompted with everyday scenarios, and wrote the lines of both user and VA…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Sarah Theres Völkel , Daniel Buschek , Malin Eiband , Benjamin R. Cowan , Heinrich Hussmann

Voice biometrics is drawing increasing attention as it is a promising alternative to legacy passwords for user authentication. Recently, a growing body of work shows that voice biometrics is vulnerable to spoofing through replay attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Linghan Zhang , Jie Yang

Voice assistants help users make phone calls, send messages, create events, navigate, and do a lot more. However, assistants have limited capacity to understand their users' context. In this work, we aim to take a step in this direction.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Shruti Bhargava , Anand Dhoot , Ing-Marie Jonsson , Hoang Long Nguyen , Alkesh Patel , Hong Yu , Vincent Renkens

At present many blind assistive systems have been implemented but there is no such kind of good system to navigate a blind person and also to track the movement of a blind person and rescue him/her if he/she is lost. In this paper, we have…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-12-04 Md. Siddiqur Rahman Tanveer , M. M. A. Hashem , Md. Kowsar Hossain

With the popularity of smartphones, users are heavily dependent on mobile applications for daily work and entertainments. However, mobile apps are becoming more and more complicated with more features and increasing size, part of which may…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Yi Liu

We present Speakerly, a new real-time voice-based writing assistance system that helps users with text composition across various use cases such as emails, instant messages, and notes. The user can interact with the system through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Dhruv Kumar , Vipul Raheja , Alice Kaiser-Schatzlein , Robyn Perry , Apurva Joshi , Justin Hugues-Nuger , Samuel Lou , Navid Chowdhury

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

We propose V-Droid, a mobile GUI task automation agent. Unlike previous mobile agents that utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) as generators to directly generate actions at each step, V-Droid employs LLMs as verifiers to evaluate candidate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Gaole Dai , Shiqi Jiang , Ting Cao , Yuanchun Li , Yuqing Yang , Rui Tan , Mo Li , Lili Qiu