@inproceedings{4992f2bf9f0f403bb18a4ae20c3d03ae,
title = "Sikuli: Using GUI screenshots for search and automation",
abstract = "We present Sikuli, a visual approach to search and automation of graphical user interfaces using screenshots. Sikuli allows users to take a screenshot of a GUI element (such as a toolbar button, icon, or dialog box) and query a help system using the screenshot instead of the element's name. Sikuli also provides a visual scripting API for automating GUI interactions, using screenshot patterns to direct mouse and keyboard events. We report a web-based user study showing that searching by screenshot is easy to learn and faster to specify than keywords. We also demonstrate several automation tasks suitable for visual scripting, such as map navigation and bus tracking, and show how visual scripting can improve interactive help systems previously proposed in the literature.",
keywords = "Automation, Image search, Online help",
author = "Tom Yeh and Chang, {Tsung Hsiang} and Miller, {Robert C.}",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1145/1622176.1622211",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781605587455",
series = "UIST 2009 - Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology",
pages = "183--192",
booktitle = "UIST 2009 - Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology",
note = "22nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2009 ; Conference date: 04-10-2009 Through 07-10-2009",
}