Intharah, T;
Turmukhambetov, D;
Brostow, GJ;
(2017)
Help, It Looks Confusing: GUI Task Automation Through Demonstration and Follow-up Questions.
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Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
(pp. pp. 233-243).
ACM: New York, NY, USA.
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Abstract
Non-programming users should be able to create their own customized scripts to perform computer-based tasks for them, just by demonstrating to the machine how it's done. To that end, we develop a system prototype which learns-by-demonstration called HILC (Help, It Looks Confusing). Users train HILC to synthesize a task script by demonstrating the task, which produces the needed screenshots and their corresponding mouse-keyboard signals. After the demonstration, the user answers follow-up questions. We propose a user-in-the-loop framework that learns to generate scripts of actions performed on visible elements of graphical applications. While pure programming-by-demonstration is still unrealistic, we use quantitative and qualitative experiments to show that non-programming users are willing and effective at answering follow-up queries posed by our system. Our models of events and appearance are surprisingly simple, but are combined effectively to cope with varying amounts of supervision. The best available baseline, Sikuli Slides, struggled with the majority of the tests in our user study experiments. The prototype with our proposed approach successfully helped users accomplish simple linear tasks, complicated tasks (monitoring, looping, and mixed), and tasks that span across multiple executables. Even when both systems could ultimately perform a task, ours was trained and refined by the user in less time.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Help, It Looks Confusing: GUI Task Automation Through Demonstration and Follow-up Questions |
| Event: | 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '17) |
| Location: | Limassol, CYPRUS |
| Dates: | 13 March 2017 - 16 March 2017 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3025171.3025176 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3025171.3025176 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Technology, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Cybernetics, Computer Science, Theory & Methods, Computer Science, Programming by Demonstration, GUI Automation, Action Segmentation and Recognition |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10088945 |
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