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Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) are software agents that can perform tasks on behalf of individuals and assist them on many of their daily activities. IPAs capabilities are expanding rapidly due to the recent advances on areas such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Oscar J. Romero

Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) is an emerging technology with a primary goal to assist the knowledge worker by taking care of repetitive, routine and low-cognitive tasks. Conversational agents that can interact with users in a natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Alena Moiseeva , Dietrich Trautmann , Michael Heimann , Hinrich Schütze

Data cooperatives with fiduciary obligations to members provide a promising direction for the empowerment of individuals through their own personal data. A data cooperative can manage, curate and protect access to the personal data of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Thomas Hardjono , Alex Pentland

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has introduced a new paradigm in automation: LLM agents or Agentic Automation with Computer Use (AACU). Unlike traditional Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which relies on rule-based workflows…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Petr Průcha , Michaela Matoušková , Jan Strnad

As AI agents take on increasingly long-running tasks involving sophisticated planning and execution, there is a corresponding need for novel interaction designs that enable deeper human-agent collaboration. However, most prior works…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-19 K. J. Kevin Feng , Kevin Pu , Matt Latzke , Tal August , Pao Siangliulue , Jonathan Bragg , Daniel S. Weld , Amy X. Zhang , Joseph Chee Chang

Computer-use agent (CUA) frameworks, powered by large language models (LLMs) or multimodal LLMs (MLLMs), are rapidly maturing as assistants that can perceive context, reason, and act directly within software environments. Among their most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Weidi Luo , Qiming Zhang , Tianyu Lu , Xiaogeng Liu , Bin Hu , Hung-Chun Chiu , Siyuan Ma , Yizhe Zhang , Xusheng Xiao , Yinzhi Cao , Zhen Xiang , Chaowei Xiao

AI agents are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where malicious content hijacks agent behavior to steal credentials or cause financial loss. The only known robust defense is architectural isolation that strictly separates trusted task…

Computer Use Agents (CUAs) operate interfaces by pointing, clicking, and typing -- mirroring interactions of sighted users (SUs) who can thus monitor CUAs and share control. CUAs do not reflect interactions by blind and low-vision users…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ananya Gubbi Mohanbabu , Rosiana Natalie , Brandon Kim , Anhong Guo , Amy Pavel

IUIs aim to incorporate intelligent automated capabilities in human computer interaction, where the net impact is a human-computer interaction that improves performance or usability in critical ways. It also involves designing and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Daniel Sonntag

Computer Use Agents (CUAs) are designed to autonomously operate digital interfaces, yet they often fail to reliably determine whether a given task has been completed. We present an autonomous evaluation and feedback framework that uses…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Marta Sumyk , Oleksandr Kosovan

Computer-use agents(CUAs)are moving frombounded benchmarks toward real software environments, wherethey operate browsers, desktops, mobile applications, flesystems,terminals, and tool backends. In such settings, reliability isno longer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zejian Chen , Zhanyuan Liu , Chaozhuo Li , Mengxiang Han , Songyang Liu , Litian Zhang , Feng Gao , Yiming Hei , Xi Zhang

Since the advent of personal computing devices, intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) have been one of the key technologies that researchers and engineers have focused on, aiming to help users efficiently obtain information and execute…

Cellular Automata(CA) is a discrete computing model which provides simple, flexible and efficient platform for simulating complicated systems and performing complex computation based on the neighborhoods information. CA consists of two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Debasis Das , Rajiv Misra

The recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have allowed individuals to rely on automated systems for a variety of reasons. Some of these systems are the currently popular voice-enabled systems like Echo by Amazon and Home by…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Lydia Manikonda , Aditya Deotale , Subbarao Kambhampati

Web agents have emerged as a promising direction to automate Web task completion based on user instructions, significantly enhancing user experience. Recently, Web agents have evolved from traditional agents to Large Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hongru Cai , Yongqi Li , Wenjie Wang , Fengbin Zhu , Xiaoyu Shen , Wenjie Li , Tat-Seng Chua

Despite the intricacies involved in designing a computer as a teampartner, we can observe patterns in team behavior which allow us to describe at a general level how AI systems are to collaborate with humans. Whereas most work on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Jurriaan van Diggelen , Wiard Jorritsma , Bob van der Vecht

As AI Agents based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown potential in practical applications across various fields, how to quickly deploy an AI agent and how to conveniently expand the application scenario of AI agents has become a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Peng Xu , Haoran Wang , Chuang Wang , Xu Liu

We present Agent S, an open agentic framework that enables autonomous interaction with computers through a Graphical User Interface (GUI), aimed at transforming human-computer interaction by automating complex, multi-step tasks. Agent S…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Saaket Agashe , Jiuzhou Han , Shuyu Gan , Jiachen Yang , Ang Li , Xin Eric Wang

Collaborative systems, such as Online Social Networks and the Internet of Things, enable users to share privacy sensitive content. Content in these systems is often co-owned by multiple users with different privacy expectations, leading to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Daan Di Scala , Pınar Yolum

AI assistants are increasingly integrated into older adults' daily lives, offering new opportunities for social support and accessibility while raising important questions about privacy, autonomy, and trust. As these systems become embedded…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Karina LaRubbio , Malcolm Grba , Diana Freed