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Recent advancements in Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents have predominantly focused on training paradigms like supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL). However, the challenge of high-dynamic GUI environments remains…

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Web browsers are a portal to the internet, where much of human activity is undertaken. Thus, there has been significant research work in AI agents that interact with the internet through web browsing. However, there is also another…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yueqi Song , Frank Xu , Shuyan Zhou , Graham Neubig

Progress toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) faces significant bottlenecks, particularly in rigorously evaluating complex interactive systems and acquiring the vast interaction data needed for training adaptive agents. This paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Krisztian Balog , ChengXiang Zhai

The traditional user-centered design process can hardly keep up with the ever faster technical development and increasingly diverse user preferences. As a solution, we propose to augment the tried-and-tested approach of conducting user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Florian Fischer , Arthur Fleig , Markus Klar , Viktorija Paneva , Jörg Müller

GUI agents hold significant potential to enhance the experience and efficiency of human-device interaction. However, current methods face challenges in generalizing across applications (apps) and tasks, primarily due to two fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yuchen Sun , Shanhui Zhao , Tao Yu , Hao Wen , Samith Va , Mengwei Xu , Yuanchun Li , Chongyang Zhang

General virtual agents need to handle multimodal observations, master complex action spaces, and self-improve in dynamic, open-domain environments. However, existing environments are often domain-specific and require complex setups, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Longtao Zheng , Zhiyuan Huang , Zhenghai Xue , Xinrun Wang , Bo An , Shuicheng Yan

Interface agents powered by generative AI models (referred to as "agents") can automate actions based on user commands. An important aspect of developing agents is their user experience (i.e., agent experience). There is a growing need to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jenny T. Liang , Titus Barik , Jeffrey Nichols , Eldon Schoop , Ruijia Cheng

Individuals with fine motor impairments, such as those caused by conditions like Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy, or dyspraxia, face significant challenges in interacting with traditional computer interfaces. Historically, scripted…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Shridhar Mehendale , Ankit Walishetti

Graphical User Interface (GUI) grounding is commonly framed as a coordinate prediction task -- given a natural language instruction, generate on-screen coordinates for actions such as clicks and keystrokes. However, recent Vision Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yu Zhao , Wei-Ning Chen , Huseyin Atahan Inan , Samuel Kessler , Lu Wang , Lukas Wutschitz , Fangkai Yang , Chaoyun Zhang , Pasquale Minervini , Saravan Rajmohan , Robert Sim

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems have been widely used by mobile phone intelligent assistants to accomplish tasks such as calendar scheduling or hotel reservation. Current TOD systems usually focus on multi-turn text/speech interaction,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Liangtai Sun , Xingyu Chen , Lu Chen , Tianle Dai , Zichen Zhu , Kai Yu

Computer-use agents (CUAs) powered by large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising approach to automating computer tasks, yet they struggle with the existing human-oriented OS interfaces - graphical user interfaces (GUIs). GUIs…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yuan Wang , Mingyu Li , Haibo Chen

The rise of (multimodal) large language models (LLMs) has shed light on software agent -- where software can understand and follow user instructions in natural language. However, existing approaches such as API-based and GUI-based agents…

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To achieve successful assistance with long-horizon web-based tasks, AI agents must be able to sequentially follow real-world user instructions over a long period. Unlike existing web-based agent benchmarks, sequential instruction following…

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We present a user interface (UI) based on augmented reality (AR) with head-mounted display (HMD) for improving situational awareness during critical operation and improve human efficiency on operations. The UI displays contextual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Dany Naser Addin , Benoit Ozell

Modern task-oriented chatbots present GUI elements alongside natural-language dialogue, yet the agent's role has largely been limited to interpreting natural-language input as GUI actions and following a linear workflow. In…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Sangwook Lee , Sang Won Lee , Adnan Abbas , Young-Ho Kim , Yan Chen

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

The concept of an AI assistant for task guidance is rapidly shifting from a science fiction staple to an impending reality. Such a system is inherently complex, requiring models for perceptual grounding, attention, and reasoning, an…

Digital agents are increasingly employed to automate tasks in interactive digital environments such as web pages, software applications, and operating systems. While text-based agents built on Large Language Models (LLMs) often require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Zhiqi Ge , Juncheng Li , Xinglei Pang , Minghe Gao , Kaihang Pan , Wang Lin , Hao Fei , Wenqiao Zhang , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

In recent years, spatial computing a.k.a. Extended Reality (XR) has emerged as a transformative technology, offering users immersive and interactive experiences across diversified virtual environments. Users can interact with XR apps…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Shuqing Li , Binchang Li , Yepang Liu , Cuiyun Gao , Jianping Zhang , Shing-Chi Cheung , Michael R. Lyu

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are the primary medium for human-computer interaction, yet automating GUI interactions remains challenging due to the complexity of visual elements, dynamic environments, and the need for multi-step…