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.
Hybrid Computer Use (HCU) is a unified interface that enables general agents to interact with computers through three complementary channels: programmatic code and command-line tools, semantic accessibility (AX) features, and visual graphical user interfaces (GUI). The design emphasizes efficient AX interaction, batch execution, and AX diffs to reduce round trips, while a supplementary skill guides agents in selecting and coordinating these channels. On the OSWorld 2.0 benchmark, HCU outperforms other systems in both efficiency and task success, demonstrating the benefits of flexible, multi‑channel computer‑use interfaces.
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:2609.24890v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluation of Computer-Use Agents (CUAs) is often limited to the final deliverables they create (at the end of hundreds of steps) and assessed with f...
Evaluation of Computer-Use Agents (CUAs) is often limited to the final deliverables they create (at the end of hundreds of steps) and assessed with functional verifiers, as seen in OSWorld. However, s...
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.
OpenGCUA is an open‑stack project that aims to make generalist computer‑use agents (GCUs) fully accessible to the research community. The first release focuses on code execution, allowing agents to use intermediate results and programming skills directly in computer interaction, and introduces harness‑to‑model decision transfer to shift observation and task‑state decisions from fixed rules to the model. On the OSWorld‑v2 benchmark, the full configuration boosts task scores for all eight evaluated models—including GPT‑6 Astra and Claude Opus 5—by an average of +19.6 partial‑score points and cuts steps per task by 53 % compared to batched GUI‑only execution, while also providing a real‑device harness and cross‑device SDK. whyItMatters":"By releasing the full stack, OpenGCUA enables systematic study and broader experimentation with generalist computer‑use agents, addressing the current limitation of closed implementations and demonstrating significant performance gains across diverse models."
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.