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Instructors often rely on visual actions such as pointing, marking, and sketching to convey information in educational presentation videos. These subtle visual cues often lack verbal descriptions, forcing low-vision (LV) learners to search…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yotam Sechayk , Ariel Shamir , Amy Pavel , Takeo Igarashi

To improve user experience, Alexa now allows users to consent to data sharing via voice rather than directing them to the companion smartphone app. While verbal consent mechanisms for voice assistants (VAs) can increase usability, they can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-20 William Seymour , Mark Cote , Jose Such

A command-following robot that serves people in everyday life must continually improve itself in deployment domains with minimal help from its end users, instead of engineers. Previous methods are either difficult to continuously improve…

We present Vinci, a vision-language system designed to provide real-time, comprehensive AI assistance on portable devices. At its core, Vinci leverages EgoVideo-VL, a novel model that integrates an egocentric vision foundation model with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yifei Huang , Jilan Xu , Baoqi Pei , Yuping He , Guo Chen , Mingfang Zhang , Lijin Yang , Zheng Nie , Jinyao Liu , Guoshun Fan , Dechen Lin , Fang Fang , Kunpeng Li , Chang Yuan , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang

Visual Question-Answering, a technology that generates textual responses from an image and natural language question, has progressed significantly. Notably, it can aid in tracking and inquiring about daily activities, crucial in healthcare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Wenqiang Chen , Jiaxuan Cheng , Leyao Wang , Wei Zhao , Wojciech Matusik

Language-guided Embodied AI benchmarks requiring an agent to navigate an environment and manipulate objects typically allow one-way communication: the human user gives a natural language command to the agent, and the agent can only follow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Xiaofeng Gao , Qiaozi Gao , Ran Gong , Kaixiang Lin , Govind Thattai , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Graphical User Interface (GUI) provides a visual bridge between a software application and end users, through which they can interact with each other. With the development of technology and aesthetics, the visual effects of the GUI are more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Zhe Liu , Chunyang Chen , Junjie Wang , Yuekai Huang , Jun Hu , Qing Wang

We present an add-on for the Android platform, capable of intercepting nearly all interactions between apps or apps with the platform, including arguments of method invocations in a human-readable format. A preliminary performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Jan-Christoph Kuester , Andreas Bauer

With an increasing demand for assistive technologies that promote the independence and mobility of visually impaired people, this study suggests an innovative real-time system that gives audio descriptions of a user's surroundings to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kunal Chavan , Keertan Balaji , Spoorti Barigidad , Samba Raju Chiluveru

Smart devices have become common place in many homes, and these devices can be utilized to provide support for people with mental or physical deficits. Voice-controlled assistants are a class of smart device that collect a large amount of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Nicholas C. Firth , Emma Harding , Mary Pat Sullivan , Sebastian J. Crutch , Daniel C. Alexander

Many companies, including Google, Amazon, and Apple, offer voice assistants as a convenient solution for answering general voice queries and accessing their services. These voice assistants have gained popularity and can be easily accessed…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Tina Khezresmaeilzadeh , Elaine Zhu , Kiersten Grieco , Daniel J. Dubois , Konstantinos Psounis , David Choffnes

Engaging with AI assistants to gather essential information in a timely manner is becoming increasingly common. Traditional activation methods, like wake words such as Hey Siri, Ok Google, and Hey Alexa, are constrained by technical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zhang Qing , Rekimoto Jun

We introduce the task of Visual Dialog, which requires an AI agent to hold a meaningful dialog with humans in natural, conversational language about visual content. Specifically, given an image, a dialog history, and a question about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Abhishek Das , Satwik Kottur , Khushi Gupta , Avi Singh , Deshraj Yadav , José M. F. Moura , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Autonomous agents for Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are revolutionizing human-computer interaction, yet their reliance on text-based instructions imposes limitations on accessibility and convenience, particularly in hands-free scenarios.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Wenkang Han , Zhixiong Zeng , Jing Huang , Shu Jiang , Liming Zheng , Longrong Yang , Haibo Qiu , Chang Yao , Jingyuan Chen , Lin Ma

In recent years, vision-language research has shifted to study tasks which require more complex reasoning, such as interactive question answering, visual common sense reasoning, and question-answer plausibility prediction. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Andrea Burns , Deniz Arsan , Sanjna Agrawal , Ranjitha Kumar , Kate Saenko , Bryan A. Plummer

Demographic growth and rise in the average age of the population is increasing the demand for the elderly assistance. Health care oriented ambient intelligence technologies are fundamental to support elderly peoples' autonomy. In this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Mariya Kilina , Tommaso Elia , Syed Yusha Kareem , Alessandro Carfi , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni

While Alexa can perform over 100,000 skills on paper, its capability covers only a fraction of what is possible on the web. To reach the full potential of an assistant, it is desirable that individuals can create skills to automate their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Michael H. Fischer , Giovanni Campagna , Euirim Choi , Monica S. Lam

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

Currently, personal assistant systems, run on smartphones and use natural language interfaces. However, these systems rely mostly on the web for finding information. Mobile and wearable devices can collect an enormous amount of contextual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Reza Rawassizadeh , Chelsea Dobbins , Manouchehr Nourizadeh , Zahra Ghamchili , Michael Pazzani

Native code is now commonplace within Android app packages where it co-exists and interacts with Dex bytecode through the Java Native Interface to deliver rich app functionalities. Yet, state-of-the-art static analysis approaches have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jordan Samhi , Jun Gao , Nadia Daoudi , Pierre Graux , Henri Hoyez , Xiaoyu Sun , Kevin Allix , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein