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We investigate whether a classifier can continuously authenticate users based on the way they interact with the touchscreen of a smart phone. We propose a set of 30 behavioral touch features that can be extracted from raw touchscreen logs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Mario Frank , Ralf Biedert , Eugene Ma , Ivan Martinovic , Dawn Song

Mobile GUI agents can automate smartphone tasks by interacting directly with app interfaces, but how they should communicate with users during execution remains underexplored. Existing systems rely on two extremes: foreground execution,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Jeonghyeon Kim , Byeongjun Joung , Junwon Lee , Joohyung Lee , Taehoon Min , Sunjae Lee

Mobile developers face unique challenges when detecting and reporting crashes in apps due to their prevailing GUI event-driven nature and additional sources of inputs (e.g., sensor readings). To support developers in these tasks, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Kevin Moran , Mario Linares-Vásquez , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Christopher Vendome , Denys Poshyvanyk

The vast majority of Web pages fail to comply with established Web accessibility guidelines, excluding a range of users with diverse abilities from interacting with their content. Making Web pages accessible to all users requires dedicated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Nadeen Fathallah , Daniel Hernández , Steffen Staab

The number of applications on online mobile application stores is increasing at a rapid rate. Smart-phones are used by a wide range of people varying in age, and also in the ability to use a smart phone. With the increasing dependency on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-03-27 Gayatri Venugopal

Context: Albeit different approaches exist for automated GUI testing of hybrid mobile applications, the practice appears to be not so commonly adopted by developers. A possible reason for such a low diffusion can be the fragility of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Riccardo Coppola , Luca Ardito , Marco Torchiano

As the popularity of Smart Televisions (TVs) and interactive Smart TV applications (apps) has recently grown, the usability of these apps has become an important quality characteristic. Previous studies examined Smart TV apps from a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Miroslav Bures , Miroslav Macik , Bestoun S. Ahmed , Vaclav Rechtberger , Pavel Slavik

Third-party skills are becoming the package ecosystem for LLM agents. They package natural-language instructions, helper scripts, templates, documents, and service configuration into reusable workflows. This makes skills useful, but it also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Haomin Zhuang , Hanwen Xing , Yujun Zhou , Yuchen Ma , Yue Huang , Yili Shen , Yufei Han , Xiangliang Zhang

A central bottleneck for phone-use agents is that controllable, reproducible environments covering real mobile behavior are hard to build at scale. Existing mobile-agent benchmarks have made important progress on evaluation, but they do not…

In today's technology-driven world, web services have opened up new opportunities for blind and visually impaired people to interact independently. Securing interactions with these services is crucial; however, currently deployed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda , Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad , Nitesh Saxena

Tool-using agents often incur substantial computational cost due to long reasoning chains and iterative tool usage. In practical scenarios, many tasks become infeasible under constrained tool environments, where the capabilities required…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Liang Cheng , Mingsheng Cai , Jiuming Jiang , Luo Mai

Usability evaluation is critical to the impact and adoption of open source software (OSS), yet traditional methods relying on human evaluators suffer from high costs and limited scalability. To address these limitations, we introduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Lingkai Meng , Yu Shao , Long Yuan , Longbin Lai , Peng Cheng , Wenyuan Yu , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin , Jingren Zhou

Broken access control is one of the most common security vulnerabilities in web applications. These vulnerabilities are the major cause of many data breach incidents, which result in privacy concern and revenue loss. However, preventing and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Li Zhong

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents, which autonomously operate on digital interfaces through natural language instructions, hold transformative potential for accessibility, automation, and user experience. A critical aspect of their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yuheng Lu , Qian Yu , Hongru Wang , Zeming Liu , Wei Su , Yanping Liu , Yuhang Guo , Maocheng Liang , Yunhong Wang , Haifeng Wang

Mobile GUI agents show promise in automating tasks but face generalization challenges in diverse real-world scenarios. Traditional approaches using pre-training or fine-tuning with massive datasets struggle with the diversity of mobile…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Guangyi Liu , Pengxiang Zhao , Liang Liu , Zhiming Chen , Yuxiang Chai , Shuai Ren , Hao Wang , Shibo He , Wenchao Meng

To date, most work regarding the formal analysis of access control schemes has focused on quantifying and comparing the expressive power of a set of schemes. Although expressive power is important, it is a property that exists in an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-02-06 William C. Garrison , Adam J. Lee , Timothy L. Hinrichs

While GUI agents have shown impressive capabilities in common computer-use tasks such as OSWorld, current benchmarks mainly focus on isolated and single-application tasks. This overlooks a critical real-world requirement of coordinating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jinchao Li , Yunxin Li , Chenrui Zhao , Zhenran Xu , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

What should a developer inspect before deploying an LLM agent: the model, the tool code, the deployment configuration, or all three? In practice, many security failures in agent systems arise not from model weights alone, but from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Haiyue Zhang , Yi Nian , Yue Zhao

Mobile software apps ("apps") are one of the prevailing digital technologies that our modern life heavily depends on. A key issue in the development of apps is how to design gender-inclusive apps. Apps that do not consider gender inclusion,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Mojtaba Shahin , Mansooreh Zahedi , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Ali Rezaei Nasab

The popularity of conversational digital assistants has resulted in the availability of large amounts of conversational data which can be utilized for improved user experience and personalized response generation. Building these assistants…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Ankita Bhaumik , Praveen Venkateswaran , Yara Rizk , Vatche Isahagian