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Computer-use agents (CUAs) hold the promise of performing a wide variety of general tasks, but current evaluations have primarily focused on simple scenarios. It therefore remains unclear whether such generalist agents can automate more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Pranjal Aggarwal , Sean Welleck

Web applications are prime targets for cyberattacks as gateways to critical services and sensitive data. Traditional penetration testing is costly and expertise-intensive, making it difficult to scale with the growing web ecosystem. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Xiaoxue Ren , Penghao Jiang , Kaixin Li , Zhiyong Huang , Xiaoning Du , Jiaojiao Jiang , Zhenchang Xing , Jiamou Sun , Terry Yue Zhuo

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents have the potential to assist users in interacting with complex software (e.g., PowerPoint, Photoshop). While prior research has primarily focused on automating user actions through clicks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Saelyne Yang , Jaesang Yu , Yi-Hao Peng , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Jae Won Cho , Yale Song , Juho Kim

Early conversational agents (CAs) focused on dyadic human-AI interaction between humans and the CAs, followed by the increasing popularity of polyadic human-AI interaction, in which CAs are designed to mediate human-human interactions. CAs…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Qingxiao Zheng , Yiliu Tang , Yiren Liu , Weizi Liu , Yun Huang

As LLM-based computer-use agents (CUAs) begin to autonomously interact with real-world interfaces, understanding their vulnerability to manipulative interface designs becomes increasingly critical. We introduce SusBench, an online benchmark…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Longjie Guo , Chenjie Yuan , Mingyuan Zhong , Robert Wolfe , Ruican Zhong , Yue Xu , Bingbing Wen , Hua Shen , Lucy Lu Wang , Alexis Hiniker

Autonomous agents that operate computers via Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) often struggle with efficiency and reliability on complex, long-horizon tasks. While augmenting these agents with planners can improve task decomposition, they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Linxin Song , Yutong Dai , Viraj Prabhu , Jieyu Zhang , Taiwei Shi , Li Li , Junnan Li , Silvio Savarese , Zeyuan Chen , Jieyu Zhao , Ran Xu , Caiming Xiong

Preventable medical errors are a severe problem in healthcare, causing over 400,000 deaths per year in the US in hospitals alone. In acute care, the branch of medicine encompassing the emergency department (ED) and intensive care units…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Michael J. Gonzales , Joshua M. Henry , Aaron W. Calhoun , Laurel D. Riek

Computer-using agents (CUAs), which can autonomously control computers to perform multi-step actions, might pose significant safety risks if misused. However, existing benchmarks mainly evaluate LMs in chatbots or simple tool use. To more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Aaron Xuxiang Tian , Ruofan Zhang , Janet Tang , Ji Wang , Tianyu Shi , Jiaxin Wen

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause cognitive, communication, and psychological challenges that profoundly limit independence in everyday life. Conversational Agents (CAs) can provide individuals with TBI with cognitive and communication…

Computer-using agents (CUAs) must plan task workflows across diverse and evolving applications, yet progress is limited by the lack of large-scale, high-quality training data. Existing datasets are narrow, static, and costly to annotate,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Chan Hee Song , Yiwen Song , Palash Goyal , Yu Su , Oriana Riva , Hamid Palangi , Tomas Pfister

Modern web agents possess computer use abilities that allow them to interact with webpages by sending commands to a virtual keyboard and mouse. While such agents have considerable potential to assist human users with complex tasks,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yixiao Song , Katherine Thai , Chau Minh Pham , Yapei Chang , Mazin Nadaf , Mohit Iyyer

Conversational human-AI interaction (CHAI) have recently driven mainstream adoption of AI. However, CHAI poses two key challenges for designers and researchers: users frequently have ambiguous goals and an incomplete understanding of AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Arthur Caetano , Kavya Verma , Atieh Taheri , Radha Kumaran , Zichen Chen , Jiaao Chen , Tobias Höllerer , Misha Sra

Autonomous agents that navigate Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) to automate tasks like document editing and file management can greatly enhance computer workflows. While existing research focuses on online settings, desktop environments,…

In mixed-ability collaboration, eye contact is often treated as a default cue for attention and turn-taking. As these signals are primarily visual, they are not reliably accessible to people with visual impairments. While prior work…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Markus Wieland , Phillip Koch , Michael Sedlmair

Current day pain assessment methods rely on patient self-report or by an observer like the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses. Patient self-report is subjective to the individual and suffers due to poor recall. Pain assessment by manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Subhash Nerella , Azra Bihorac , Patrick Tighe , Parisa Rashidi

The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in visual analytics (VA) tools raises vital questions about the behavior of users, their trust, and the potential of induced biases when provided with guidance during data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Sunwoo Ha , Shayan Monadjemi , Alvitta Ottley

Prompting and steering techniques are well established in general-purpose generative AI, yet assistive visual question answering (VQA) tools for blind users still follow rigid interaction patterns with limited opportunities for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Farnaz Zamiri Zeraati , Yang Trista Cao , Yuehan Qiao , Hal Daumé , Hernisa Kacorri

As machine learning systems increasingly inform critical decisions, the need for human-understandable explanations grows. Current evaluations of Explainable AI (XAI) often prioritize technical fidelity over cognitive accessibility which…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Tobias Labarta , Nhi Hoang , Katharina Weitz , Wojciech Samek , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Leander Weber

Computer-use agents operate over long horizons under noisy perception, multi-window contexts, evolving environment states. Existing approaches, from RL-based planners to trajectory retrieval, often drift from user intent and repeatedly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Seoyoung Lee , Seobin Yoon , Seongbeen Lee , Yoojung Chun , Dayoung Park , Doyeon Kim , Joo Yong Sim

Progress in computer use agents (CUAs) has been constrained by the absence of large and high-quality datasets that capture how humans interact with a computer. While LLMs have thrived on abundant textual data, no comparable corpus exists…