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Modern mobile applications rely on hidden interactions--gestures without visual cues like long presses and swipes--to provide functionality without cluttering interfaces. While experienced users may discover these interactions through prior…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Minkyu Kweon , Seokhyeon Park , Soohyun Lee , You Been Lee , Jeongmin Rhee , Jinwook Seo

Mobile applications, often simply called "apps", are increasingly widespread, and we use them daily to perform a number of activities. Like all software, apps must be adequately tested to gain confidence that they behave correctly.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-04-01 Shauvik Roy Choudhary , Alessandra Gorla , Alessandro Orso

Most visual grounding solutions primarily focus on realistic images. However, applications involving synthetic images, such as Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), remain limited. This restricts the development of autonomous computer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-21 El Hassane Ettifouri , Jessica López Espejel , Laura Minkova , Tassnim Dardouri , Walid Dahhane

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology makes mobile devices become intelligent objects which can learn and act automatically. Although AI will bring great opportunities for mobile applications, little work has focused on the architecture…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Ziyi Wang , Yong Cui , Zeqi Lai

User Experience (UX) evaluation methods that are commonly used with hearing users may not be functional or effective for Deaf users. This is because these methods are primarily designed for users with hearing abilities, which can create…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-31 A. E. Fuentes-Cortázar , A. Rivera-Hernández , J. R. Rojano-Cáceres

The Graphical User Interface (GUI) plays a critical role in the interaction between users and mobile applications (apps), aiming at facilitating the operation process. However, due to the variety of functions and non-standardized design,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Mengxi Zhang , Huaxiao Liu , Chunyang Chen , Guangyong Gao , Han Li , Jian Zhao

Mobile and wearable interfaces and interaction paradigms are highly constrained by the available screen real estate, and the computational and power resources. Although there exist many ways of displaying information to mobile users,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Kirill A. Shatilov , Dimitris Chatzopoulos , Lik-Hang Lee , Pan Hui

Mobile apps face strong pressure for fast and reliable updates. Continuous Integration (CI) helps automate builds, tests, and releases, but its impact on mobile development remains underexplored. Despite the widespread use of CI, little is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xiaoxin Zhou , Taher A. Ghaleb , Safwat Hassan

The present paper introduces the initial implementation of a software exploration tool targeting graphical user interface (GUI) driven applications. GUITracer facilitates the comprehension of GUI-driven applications by starting from their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Arthur-Jozsef Molnar

In recent times, there have been significant advancements in utilizing the sensing capabilities of mobile devices for developing applications. The primary objective has been to enhance the way a user interacts with the application by making…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-09-07 Sumit Soman , Siddharth Srivastava , Saurabh Srivastava , Nitendra Rajput

Exploratory GUI testing is a particularly demanding setting for MLLM agents: without predefined test scripts, an agent must autonomously navigate an application and discover defects through its own interaction. However, current evaluation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiaoyi Chen , Yifei Gao , Yang Xu , Xingxing Song , Yi Zhang , Jitao Sang

Financial management has been revolutionized by mobile banking, but increasing usefulness and satisfaction requires a better user experience. This study aims to provide an improved customer experience by offering user-friendly interfaces,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Luniva Chitrakar , Ishan Panta , Biplov Paneru , Sangharsh Poudel , Lahana Kansakar

Building Graphical User Interface (GUI) assistants holds significant promise for enhancing human workflow productivity. While most agents are language-based, relying on closed-source API with text-rich meta-information (e.g., HTML or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Kevin Qinghong Lin , Linjie Li , Difei Gao , Zhengyuan Yang , Shiwei Wu , Zechen Bai , Weixian Lei , Lijuan Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

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

Design for Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) has become more relevant in recent years due to the enormous advances of speech technologies and their growing presence in our everyday lives. Although modern VUIs still present interaction issues,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Gisela Reyes-Cruz , Joel Fischer , Stuart Reeves

Existing automated techniques for software documentation typically attempt to reason between two main sources of information: code and natural language. However, this reasoning process is often complicated by the lexical gap between more…

Fairness is one of the socio-technical concerns that must be addressed in software systems. Considering the popularity of mobile software applications (apps) among a wide range of individuals worldwide, mobile apps with unfair behaviors and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Ali Rezaei Nasab , Maedeh Dashti , Mojtaba Shahin , Mansooreh Zahedi , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Chetan Arora , Peng Liang

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) and reinforcement learning (RL) have driven progress in GUI automation. However, most existing methods rely on static, one-shot visual inputs and passive perception, lacking the ability to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Chen Chen , Jiawei Shao , Dakuan Lu , Haoyi Hu , Xiangcheng Liu , Hantao Yao , Wu Liu

Designing effective user interfaces (UIs) for virtual reality (VR) is essential to enhance user immersion, usability, comfort, and accessibility in virtual environments. Despite the growing adoption of VR across domains, there is a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Esin Mehmedova , Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman , Stefan Wagner

Despite years of research on testing the usability of mobile applications, our understanding of the issues their users experience still remains fragmented and underexplored. While most earlier studies has provided interesting insights, they…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pawel Weichbroth