The study evaluates computer-use agents (CUAs) for blind users by conducting a three‑week diary study with eight participants using the OLLA prototype. Across 1,258 commands in 12 desktop applications, GPT‑5 achieved the highest success rate of 52.5%, while analysis uncovered failures in grounding, planning, constraint‑tracking, and termination. Interviews highlighted additional needs beyond automation for blind users.
arXiv:2608. 09944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern web interfaces are increasingly difficult to use with screen readers, particularly when pages update dynamically or hide important structure behind visual layout.
Affora is a design system aimed at making software interfaces more readable by computer-use agents while still allowing designers visual freedom and maintaining familiar human workflows. The authors conducted three controlled studies on component implementations, visual variation, and interaction-design principles, using the results to create guidance from individual components to full sites, along with reusable implementations and executable checks. Evaluation on independently authored interfaces showed performance gains where Affora addressed existing deficits, with limited effects elsewhere, and a workflow case suggested reduced interaction cost.
arXiv:2607. 14443v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents are becoming capable software operators, but their interface to desktop applications is still often a brittle motor layer: they look at screenshots, predict coordinates, click, and hope that the visible state changed as intended.
arXiv:2606. 30697v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current operating systems expose interfaces optimized for human users but not for AI agents.
UI‑Venus‑2 is a general‑purpose foundation GUI agent that operates across mobile, web, and desktop environments using a unified closed‑loop reasoning‑action framework. The report details how the system expands environment coverage to over 170 multilingual mobile apps and native desktop OSes, scales task generation through a deep‑research pipeline, and enhances verification with trace‑level and sample‑level evaluators that use visual keypoints and multi‑model voting. Safety‑aware mechanisms are also incorporated to control consequential actions, positioning UI‑Venus‑2 as an efficient, open‑source tool for more generalizable, verifiable, and self‑reflective agents in real‑world applications.
arXiv:2606. 03203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents could automate repetitive screen-based clinical work, but their reliability in medical graphical user interfaces remains largely unvalidated.
arXiv:2606. 11042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent years have witnessed the rapid evolution of AI agents toward handling increasingly complex, real-world tasks.
ERPBench introduces a new evaluation paradigm for computer-use agents that operate via screenshots and simulated actions, focusing on enterprise software such as ERP systems. The benchmark tests agents on a live, reproducible ERP platform and scores tasks against ground-truth database values, highlighting challenges like dense interfaces, multi-step interactions, and persistent record errors. Experiments with six agents show that strong general GUI performance does not translate to reliable enterprise outcomes, with many agents frequently saving incorrect data.
arXiv:2607. 15193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphical user interface (GUI) automation remains challenging in real-world environments, where dynamic layouts, unexpected dialogs, and evolving interface states can cause autonomous agents to drift from user intent.
arXiv:2606. 07594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personal AI agents must increasingly operate across APIs, shells, web surfaces, and desktop GUIs, yet many systems remain tuned to a single interface and offer limited support for user teaching and auditability.
arXiv:2608. 09278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GUI agents have advanced rapidly, producing a growing body of frameworks, benchmarks, and applications.
arXiv:2606. 03103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world professional desktop workflows in specialized creative and engineering software unfold over long horizons and often require human-in-the-loop coordination, where agents proactively seek necessary information and users provide additional instructions, clarifications, feedback, or corrections as the task progresses.