GhostUI: Unveiling Hidden Interactions in Mobile UI

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Autori principali: Kweon, Minkyu, Park, Seokhyeon, Lee, Soohyun, Lee, You Been, Rhee, Jeongmin, Seo, Jinwook
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Kweon, Minkyu
Park, Seokhyeon
Lee, Soohyun
Lee, You Been
Rhee, Jeongmin
Seo, Jinwook
author_facet Kweon, Minkyu
Park, Seokhyeon
Lee, Soohyun
Lee, You Been
Rhee, Jeongmin
Seo, Jinwook
contents Modern mobile applications rely on hidden interactions--gestures without visual cues like long presses and swipes--to provide functionality without cluttering interfaces. While experienced users may discover these interactions through prior use or onboarding tutorials, their implicit nature makes them difficult for most users to uncover. Similarly, mobile agents--systems designed to automate tasks on mobile user interfaces, powered by vision language models (VLMs)--struggle to detect veiled interactions or determine actions for completing tasks. To address this challenge, we present GhostUI, a new dataset designed to enable the detection of hidden interactions in mobile applications. GhostUI provides before-and-after screenshots, simplified view hierarchies, gesture metadata, and task descriptions, allowing VLMs to better recognize concealed gestures and anticipate post-interaction states. Quantitative evaluations with VLMs show that models fine-tuned on GhostUI outperform baseline VLMs, particularly in predicting hidden interactions and inferring post-interaction screens, underscoring GhostUI's potential as a foundation for advancing mobile task automation.
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spellingShingle GhostUI: Unveiling Hidden Interactions in Mobile UI
Kweon, Minkyu
Park, Seokhyeon
Lee, Soohyun
Lee, You Been
Rhee, Jeongmin
Seo, Jinwook
Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Modern mobile applications rely on hidden interactions--gestures without visual cues like long presses and swipes--to provide functionality without cluttering interfaces. While experienced users may discover these interactions through prior use or onboarding tutorials, their implicit nature makes them difficult for most users to uncover. Similarly, mobile agents--systems designed to automate tasks on mobile user interfaces, powered by vision language models (VLMs)--struggle to detect veiled interactions or determine actions for completing tasks. To address this challenge, we present GhostUI, a new dataset designed to enable the detection of hidden interactions in mobile applications. GhostUI provides before-and-after screenshots, simplified view hierarchies, gesture metadata, and task descriptions, allowing VLMs to better recognize concealed gestures and anticipate post-interaction states. Quantitative evaluations with VLMs show that models fine-tuned on GhostUI outperform baseline VLMs, particularly in predicting hidden interactions and inferring post-interaction screens, underscoring GhostUI's potential as a foundation for advancing mobile task automation.
title GhostUI: Unveiling Hidden Interactions in Mobile UI
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19258