title: "Bespoke: Interactively Synthesizing Custom GUIs from Command-Line Applications By Demonstration"
authors: Priyan Vaithilingam and Philip J. Guo
venue: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
year: 2019

tweet: Bespoke turns ordinary command-line applications into custom GUIs by watching how users invoke them

abstract: >
  Programmers, researchers, system administrators, and data scientists
  often build complex workflows based on command-line applications. To
  give these power users the well-known benefits of GUIs, we created
  Bespoke, a system that synthesizes custom GUIs by observing user
  demonstrations of command-line apps. Bespoke unifies the two main
  forms of desktop human-computer interaction (command-line and GUI) via
  a hybrid approach that combines the flexibility and composability of
  the command line with the usability and discoverability of GUIs. To
  assess the versatility of Bespoke, we ran an open-ended study where
  participants used it to create their own GUIs in domains that
  personally motivated them. They made a diverse set of GUIs for use
  cases such as cloud computing management, machine learning
  prototyping, lecture video transcription, integrated circuit design,
  remote code deployment, and gaming server management. Participants
  reported that the benefit of these bespoke GUIs was that they exposed
  only the most relevant subset of options required for their specific
  needs. In contrast, vendor-made GUIs usually include far more panes,
  menus, and settings since they must accommodate a wider range of use
  cases.

bibtex: >
  @inproceedings{VaithilingamUIST2019,
    author = {Vaithilingam, Priyan and Guo, Philip J.},
    title = {Bespoke: Interactively Synthesizing Custom GUIs from Command-Line Applications By Demonstration},
    year = {2019},
    isbn = {9781450368162},
    publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    address = {New York, NY, USA},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3332165.3347944},
    doi = {10.1145/3332165.3347944},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology},
    pages = {563--576},
    numpages = {14},
    keywords = {gui synthesis, command-line interfaces, pbd},
    location = {New Orleans, LA, USA},
    series = {UIST '19}
  }