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The recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have stimulated interest among researchers and industry professionals, particularly in their application to tasks concerning mobile user interfaces (UIs). This position paper investigates…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Yuwen Lu , Ziang Tong , Qinyi Zhao , Chengzhi Zhang , Toby Jia-Jun Li

User interface (UI) design is a difficult yet important task for ensuring the usability, accessibility, and aesthetic qualities of applications. In our paper, we develop a machine-learned model, UIClip, for assessing the design quality and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Jason Wu , Yi-Hao Peng , Amanda Li , Amanda Swearngin , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Jeffrey Nichols

There has been a widespread emergence of computing devices in the past few years that go beyond the capabilities of traditional desktop computers. However, users want to use the same kinds of applications and access the same data and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mir Farooq Ali , Manuel A. Perez-Quinones , Eric Shell , Marc Abrams

Declarative UI frameworks have gained widespread adoption in mobile app development, offering benefits such as improved code readability and easier maintenance. Despite these advantages, the process of translating UI designs into functional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Ting Zhou , Yanjie Zhao , Xinyi Hou , Xiaoyu Sun , Kai Chen , Haoyu Wang

Developing web-based GIS applications, commonly known as CyberGIS dashboards, for querying and visualizing GIS data in environmental research often demands repetitive and resource-intensive efforts. While Generative AI offers automation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Haowen Xu , Xiao-Ying Yu

This paper presents an AI-assisted programming tool called Copilot for Xcode for program composition and design to support human software developers. By seamlessly integrating cloud-based Large Language Models (LLM) with Apple's local…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Chee Wei Tan , Shangxin Guo , Man Fai Wong , Ching Nam Hang

Approximately 50% of development resources are devoted to UI development tasks [9]. Occupying a large proportion of development resources, developing icons can be a time-consuming task, because developers need to consider not only effective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Sidong Feng , Minmin Jiang , Tingting Zhou , Yankun Zhen , Chunyang Chen

Large language models (LLMs) have catalyzed an upsurge in automatic code generation, garnering significant attention for register transfer level (RTL) code generation. Despite the potential of RTL code generation with natural language, it…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Chenwei Xiong , Cheng Liu , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

UI-to-code technology has streamlined the front-end development process, reducing repetitive tasks for engineers. prior research mainly use design prototypes as inputs, with the effectiveness of the generated code heavily dependent on these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Shuhong Xiao , Yunnong Chen , Jiazhi Li , Liuqing Chen , Lingyun Sun , Tingting Zhou

Immersive authoring provides an intuitive medium for users to create 3D scenes via direct manipulation in Virtual Reality (VR). Recent advances in generative AI have enabled the automatic creation of realistic 3D layouts. However, it is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Lei Zhang , Jin Pan , Jacob Gettig , Steve Oney , Anhong Guo

Generative AI has made rapid advancements in recent years, achieving unprecedented capabilities in multimodal understanding and code generation. This can enable a new paradigm of front-end development in which multimodal large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Chenglei Si , Yanzhe Zhang , Ryan Li , Zhengyuan Yang , Ruibo Liu , Diyi Yang

User interface to code (UI2Code) aims to generate executable code that can faithfully reconstruct a given input UI. Prior work focuses largely on web pages and mobile screens, leaving app widgets underexplored. Unlike web or mobile UIs with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Houston H. Zhang , Tao Zhang , Baoze Lin , Yuanqi Xue , Yincheng Zhu , Huan Liu , Li Gu , Linfeng Ye , Ziqiang Wang , Xinxin Zuo , Yang Wang , Yuanhao Yu , Zhixiang Chi

Automated UI evaluation can be beneficial for the design process; for example, to compare different UI designs, or conduct automated heuristic evaluation. LLM-based UI evaluation, in particular, holds the promise of generalizability to a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Peitong Duan , Chin-yi Chen , Gang Li , Bjoern Hartmann , Yang Li

Code synthesis, which requires a deep understanding of complex natural language problem descriptions, generation of code instructions for complex algorithms and data structures, and the successful execution of comprehensive unit tests,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Md. Ashraful Islam , Mohammed Eunus Ali , Md Rizwan Parvez

We present a case study of using generative user interfaces, or ``vibe coding,'' a method leveraging large language models (LLMs) for generating code via natural language prompts, to support rapid prototyping in user-centered design (UCD).…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Tianyi Li , Tanay Maheshwari , Alex Voelker

The evolution of web applications relies on iterative code modifications, a process that is traditionally manual and time-consuming. While Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate UI code, their ability to edit existing code from new…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Truong Hai Dang , Jingyu Xiao , Yintong Huo

The evolution of LLM has resulted in coding-focused models that are able to produce code snippets with high accuracy. More and more AI coding assistant tools are now available, leading to greater integration of AI coding assistants into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Neha Rani , Jeevan Ram Munnangi , Austin Matthew Spangler , Donald Honeycutt

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown impressive success across modalities such as image, video, and audio in a variety of understanding and generation tasks. However, current MLLMs are surprisingly poor at understanding…

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in automating significant aspects of coding by producing natural code from informal natural language (NL) intent. However, given NL is informal, it does not lend easily to checking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Sarah Fakhoury , Aaditya Naik , Georgios Sakkas , Saikat Chakraborty , Shuvendu K. Lahiri

Front-end development constitutes a substantial portion of software engineering, yet converting design mockups into production-ready User Interface (UI) code remains tedious and costly. While recent work has explored automating this process…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yi Gui , Jiawan Zhang , Yina Wang , Tianran Ma , Yao Wan , Shilin He , Dongping Chen , Zhou Zhao , Wenbin Jiang , Xuanhua Shi , Hai Jin , Philip S Yu