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\section{Introduction}

\begin{figure}[t]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.47\textwidth]{case.pdf}
    \caption{An example of the GUI-based task-oriented dialogue system(GUI-TOD). The Action Executor will execute tasks on GUI and the system will generate a response based on the execution result.}
    \label{fig:system_example}
\end{figure}

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of task-oriented dialogue systems~\cite{zhang2020recent,wu2020tod,chen2020schema,ren2018towards,chen2017survey,ni2021recent}. They have been widely applied to customer support, booking system and especially intelligent personal assistant. These task-oriented dialogue systems work in a similar pipeline: firstly identify the user intent, then extract necessary information by the process of slot-filling. After getting enough information for the task, the agent will call the backend APIs (e.g. querying the database), then generate a response based on the query result.

There are some drawbacks of this framework. Firstly, not all services provide APIs for task-oriented dialogue system, and a real-world task might be too complicated to be finished by the available APIs. Secondly, a system should be customized to recognize the pre-defined API-related slots, which limits the generality.

\begin{table*}[h]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}
\hline
Action & Description                                       \\ \hline\hline
\texttt{Click}(\texttt{item} = $x$) & Click the item with index $x$ on the screen. \\
\texttt{Swipe}(\texttt{direction} = $x$) & Swipe the screen towards direction $x$, which includes ``up'' and ``down''. \\
\texttt{Input}(\texttt{text} = $x$) & Input the text $x$ to the smartphone.\\
\texttt{Enter}(\ ) & Press the ``Enter'' button on the keyboard. \\
\texttt{Clear}(\ ) & Clear the current input box. \\
\texttt{Back}(\ ) & Press the ``back'' button on the smartphone.    \\
\texttt{End}(\ ) & Turn has been finished and it will go to response generator module. \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{The actions in our dataset. There are 7 different actions with 3 different parameters.}
\label{action_table}
\end{table*}

Consider how humans perform tasks on smartphones, they don't need a parametric API but finish tasks by interacting with the GUI (graphical user interface). This indicates that GUI is a more general interface.
Previous works explore how to translate natural language commands into GUI operations~\cite{mazumder2021flin,pasupat2018mapping,xu2021grounding}. These studies focus on single query and step-by-step operations, while in real scenarios the query would be multi-turn interaction and there is no clear instruction about how to execute the task. Etan~\cite{riva2021etna} and SUGILITE~\cite{li2017sugilite} are two systems that support learning GUI operations from demonstrations, but these systems are script-based and are sensitive to the change of GUI and workflow. Duplex on the web~\cite{duplex} can directly operate the website to perform the required task, for example booking a movie ticket. However, it only supports limited websites, and it's more a unified GUI interface than a task-oriented dialogue system that enables general GUI operation.

To this end, we propose the task of GUI-based task-oriented dialogue system (GUI-TOD). It supports multi-turn conversation and direct GUI operation. All tasks would be performed on the GUI of real APPs. Since there is no available benchmark published, We collect META-GUI, a dataset with dialogues and GUI traces on real Android APPs. A GUI trace is a series of GUI operations, including screenshots, Android view hierarchies as well as actions. Android view hierarchy is an XML-style file, which organizes the content of GUI through a hierarchical structure. It also contains the types of items on the screen and their bounding boxes. An example is shown in Appendix \ref{view hierarchy}. When a user requests a task, the system should open the related APP and execute the task through multiple operations on GUI. It requires a comprehensive understanding of GUI structure and interaction logic. An example is shown in Figure \ref{fig:system_example}.

 We focus on building an agent with general ability to operate GUI, rather than optimize for specific APPs.
 Our proposed GUI-TOD system leverages both the visual information and textual information in the screen to predict the next action to be executed and generate the system response. Our experiments show that the GUI-TOD outperforms heuristic baselines by a large margin, with an action completion rate of 82.74\%.

Our contributions are followings:
\begin{itemize}
    \item We propose a GUI-based task-oriented dialogue system, which can perform tasks on mobile APPs through multiple operations on GUI.
    \item We collect META-GUI{}, a dataset with dialogues and GUI operation traces serving as the benchmark for the proposed system.
    \item We conduct thorough experiments on our dataset and validate the importance of multi-modal information and history information. We show that it is a promising task but needs further exploration.
\end{itemize}

\section{Task Definition}
\label{taskdefination}

\begin{figure}[h]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{systempipeline_en.drawio.pdf}
    \caption{The overview of GUI-based task-oriented dialogue system (GUI-TOD).}
    \label{fig:gui-tod}
\end{figure}

The overview of GUI-TOD is shown in Figure \ref{fig:gui-tod}. It consists of two sub-modules: Action Executor (AE) and Response Generator (RG).
The traditional task-oriented dialogue system~\cite{chen2017survey,zhang2020recent} splits the task into natural language understanding (NLU), dialogue manager (DM), and natural language generation (NLG). The AE module has similar features with DM, it execute the requested task by interacting with the GUI for multiple rounds, while DM accomplishes this with a single-step API call. The RG module will generate the system response based on the execution results, which is the same as NLG. Furthermore, we omit the NLU module and directly input user utterances to AE. The process of executing task is a series of GUI operations, including click, swipe, etc. The task of AE module is action prediction, which aims at predicting the next action to be performed on GUI, and the RG module focuses on generating system's response after executing a task. A major improvement of GUI-TOD is that it does not rely on a pre-defined domain ontology. Conventionally, the DM module will identify a set of slot-value from the user utterance, which serves as the parameter for backend APIs. However, GUI-TOD handles task-specific slot-values during the execution of tasks. When the APP requires a certain input (for example, enter the time and destination), the system can obtain the information by understanding the current user utterance or generating a response for further asking.
Compared with CUED actions \cite{young2007cued} in traditional TOD, actions in GUI-TOD are GUI-related operations rather than communication actions between user and system.

Formally, the action prediction task can be defined as: given the GUI trace and dialogue history, predict the next action to be performed.
We define the set of actions that can be performed on the APPs in Table \ref{action_table}. All the actions would take the form of $Action(parameter=*)$. There are seven types of $Action$, including six physical actions: \textit{click, swipe, input, enter, clear, back}, and one virtual action: \textit{end}. The corresponding parameters are listed in Table \ref{action_table}. The $end$ action is the last action for every GUI trace, which means the end of GUI operations. After an $end$ action is generated, the GUI-TOD would move to the RG module.
We denote the \textit{j}th action in turn \textit{i} as $\mathcal{A}_{i,j}=\left( t, p \right)$, where \textit{t} is the action type and \textit{p} is the corresponding parameter. $\mathcal{S}_{i,j}=\left( s, v \right)$ is the \textit{j}th screen in turn \textit{i}, including the screenshot \textit{s} and the view hierarchy \textit{v}. The dialogue in turn \textit{i} is represented as $\mathcal{D}_{i}=\left( U_i, R_i \right)$ where $U_i$ is the $i$th user utterance and $R_i$ is the $i$th system response. The action prediction task is formulated as:
\begin{equation}
    \mathcal{A}_{i,j}=\mathcal{F}\left( \mathcal{S}_{1:i, 1:j}, \mathcal{A}_{1:i,1:j-1}, \mathcal{D}_{1:i-1}, U_i \right),
\end{equation}
where $1:i$ means from turn $1$ to $i$, $\mathcal{F}$ is a trainable action model, which we discuss in \ref{actionmodel}. The RG module takes the GUI trace and dialogue history as input , then generate a response based on the execution result and context. Denote the set of actions in turn $i$ as $\mathcal{A}_i$, the screens in turn $i$ as $\mathcal{S}_i$, the language response task is formulated as:
\begin{equation}
    \mathcal{R}_{i}=\mathcal{G}\left( \mathcal{S}_{1:i}, \mathcal{A}_{1:i}, \mathcal{D}_{1:i-1}, U_i \right),
\end{equation}
where $\mathcal{G}$ is the response generator model, which we discuss in \ref{responsemodel}.

\section{Meta-GUI Creation}
Our dataset consists of two kinds of data: dialogues and GUI operation traces. In each dialogue, user would ask the agent to complete a certain task through multi-turn interaction. Our tasks involve six different domains: weather, calendar, search, taxi, hotel and restaurant.
In our paper, we regard apps that complete the same task as a domain.
To enhance the diversity of our dataset, we use multiple apps for the domains of calendar and weather.
The details of APPs are listed in Appendix \ref{app_data}.

\begin{figure*}[h]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{item_type.pdf}
    \caption{The distribution of the total number of items versus the clicked one for each item type.}
    \label{fig:item_type}
\end{figure*}

\subsection{Collecting GUI traces}
We collected our data in two-stage: first we collected GUI traces for existing dialogues, then we collected both dialogues and GUI traces

At the first stage, we provided dialogues to annotators and instructed them to perform tasks on real APPs. We started from extracting dialogues from the SMCalFlow dataset \cite{andreas2020task}.
We extract dialogues from calendar, weather and search domains. Six annotators were recruited to label the GUI traces. We built a web-based annotation system, which was connected to a real Android smartphone (see Appendix \ref{annotation system}). Annotators can see the current screen of the smartphone in the system, and control the smartphone by clicking buttons. A dialogue would be shown in the system.
Annotators should first read the dialogue, then they were allowed to explore how to finish the task on smartphone.
After they were ready, they need to use the annotation system to record the actual process of executing the task. Each operation would be recorded, and the screenshot after each operation was also saved together with the view hierarchy. The view hierarchy is similar to HTML code for web pages. An example is shown in Appendix \ref{view hierarchy}.

At the second stage, we collected dialogues and GUI traces for domains of hotel, restaurant and taxi. Because there are no available dialogues of these domains in previous datasets, we asked annotators to write new dialogues. We selected three experienced annotators from the last stage. Different from the last stage, the annotator was shown a task objective, which was generated randomly from all available conditions in APPs. The annotators should act as user and system alternatively to write dialogues according to the task objectives. To avoid annotators writing short and simple dialogues, we added constraints about the number of turns and the behaviors in dialogue, e.g. adding a condition or changing a condition. An example for the generated target is shown in Appendix \ref{exampleoftarget}. After writing dialogues, the annotators should also record the corresponding GUI operation traces for each turn, which is the same as the last stage.

\subsection{Data Review}
After annotation, we manually reviewed the data. The checklist includes: whether the recorded GUI traces match the dialogues, whether there are invalid operations due to the system error or misoperation, and whether there are redundant operations in the GUI trace. We manually fixed annotations that only have small mistakes, and discarded the task requiring significant modification. The dialogue level pass rate is about $63.6\%$, and finally we got 1125 dialogues in total. For more information, we refer to Appendix \ref{datareview}.

\subsection{Post-processing}

The dialogues collected in the second state were created by three annotators, which lack the diversity in expression. Therefore, we published a dialog re-written task on AMT\footnote{\url{https://www.mturk.com/}} (Amazon Mechanical Turk) to polish the dialogues.

\begin{figure}[h]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{action_distribution.pdf}
    \caption{The distribution of actions.}
    \label{fig:action_distribution}
\end{figure}

During GUI trace annotation, some APPs can not obtain valid Android hierarchy. To handle this problem, we used Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, provided by Baidu Cloud \footnote{\url{https://cloud.baidu.com/}}, to detect all texts on the image with their corresponding positions and generate a fake layout file.

\begin{figure*}[h]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth]{multimodalmodel.pdf}
    \caption{The illustration of our proposed model. There are five parts in this figure: (1) encoder; (2) image feature extraction; (3) multi-modal information fusion; (4) the Action Module; (5) the Response Module.}
    \label{fig:armodel}
\end{figure*}

We extract items from screen using corresponding layout file. An item is a clickable leaf node. Similar to \cite{zhou2021large}, we consider an item to be clickable if its \texttt{clickable} attribute is true or its parent node is clickable. An item consists of text content, item type and bounding box.

\subsection{Data Analysis}

The total number of dialogues in our dataset is 1125, including 4684 turns.
The average number of images for each turn is 5.30, and the average number of words for each utterance is 8. On average, there are 23.80 items for each image, and the item text length is 2.48 words. The distribution of item types is shown in Figure \ref{fig:item_type}. We also provide an example for each item type in Appendix \ref{exampleofitemtypes}. It is clear that \texttt{TextView} and \texttt{ImageView} are the two most frequent type, which indicates that our dataset is informative.

 The distribution of actions is listed in Figure \ref{fig:action_distribution}. The \texttt{click} is the most frequent action, while \texttt{clear} is the least action for the reason that only a small number of tasks require clearing the current input box. For \texttt{click} action, we further compute the type distribution of target items, which is shown in Figure \ref{fig:item_type}. \texttt{TextView} and \texttt{Button} type are mostly clicked, while there are 8 item types never been operated. This implies that the item types may supply some hints for predicting the target items. Besides, the average numbers of words for \texttt{response} and \texttt{input} action are 9 and 3 respectively.

\section{Model Design}

\subsection{Action Model}
\label{actionmodel}

In this section, we will discuss the design of our Action Model. The overview of our Model is illustrated in Figure \ref{fig:armodel}. It is composed of four components: encoder, image feature extraction, multi-modal information fusion and the output action module. The simplest Action Model only consists of encoder and action module. To verify the importance of multi-modal information, we further add it to the model, and get the multi-modal Action Model, which consists of these four parts. Next, we will introduce these separately.

\paragraph{Encoder} The input of encoder consists of two parts: dialog history $\{w_{1:n}\}$ and items $\{m_{1,1:l_1}, \dots, m_{k,1:l_k}\}$, where $n$ is the length of dialogue history, $k$ is the number of items and $l_i$ is the length of the $i$th item.

\paragraph{Image feature extraction} Given a screenshot and its corresponding layout file, similar to Faster R-CNN~\cite{ren2015faster}, we use Resnet~\cite{he2016deep} and Feature Pyramid Network (FPN)~\cite{lin2017feature} to calculate the feature map. Then we extract the bounding box of each token from layout file. With these bounding boxes, we apply RoI pooling on the feature map to get the token-level image features.

\paragraph{Multi-modal information fusion} Given the encoder output and the regional image feature extracted above, we concatenate them together. And then, we use a Transformer encoder with $M$ layers to fuse the multi-modal features. For each layer, to enhance the image information, we will concatenate the image features and the output from the last layer again to form the input of the next layer.

\paragraph{Action Module} For Action model, we need to predict the action type and its corresponding parameters. As shown in Table \ref{action_table}, there are 7 action types with 3 different parameters. We show some examples of parameter predictions in Appendix \ref{parameterpredictions}.

We use the encoder output of the \texttt{[CLS]} token for action type prediction. We apply a feed forward network followed by a Softmax layer to predict the action type.

For the action parameter, we use three different classifiers:

1) \textit{Input Text Prediction} \ We formulate the prediction of input text as a span prediction task. We use two classifiers to predict the begin and end position in the dialogue.

2) \textit{Target Item Prediction} \ The target item classifier is based on the encoding outputs of items. We first computed the item representation by applying average pooling on the encoding outputs, then we use a feed forward layer to compute the probability of selecting an item followed by a Softmax layer.

3) \textit{Direction Prediction} \ The direction classifier is a two-classes classification layer for the direction \textit{up} and \textit{down}.

\paragraph{Add history information} According to the task definition, besides dialogue histories, we can still use action histories and screen histories. To verify this, we add them to the action model. For action histories, we regard action types as special tokens, and add them to the dictionary. We concatenate the most recent $H$ action types $\{t_{1:H}\}$ before the dialogue history as input.
For screenshot histories, we use cross-attention mechanism to fuse histories. For each screenshot, we extract image features using the same method as image feature extraction module. The details is shown in Appendix \ref{history}.

\subsection{Response Model}
\label{responsemodel}

The Response Model aims to generate the response to user. It shares similar architecture with the Action Model. Considering the prediction of response is mainly decided by the execution results and dialogues, we do not use action histories for the Response Model. For the decoder part, we use a Transformer Decoder with N layers.

\section{Experiment}
\subsection{Data Preprocess}
\label{dataset_generateion}

\begin{table}[h!]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c||c|c|c|}
\hline
                & Train & Dev  & Test \\ \hline
\# dialogues & 897   & 112  & 116  \\ \hline
\# turns     & 3692  & 509  & 483  \\ \hline
\# data      & 14539 & 1875 & 1923 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Dataset Statistics}
\label{tab:dataset_statistics}
\end{table}

We process the dataset in the granularity of action. Each data point contains screenshot history, action history, dialogue history, items appeared on the current screen and actions to be performed.
We obtained 18337 data points in total, and we randomly divide the data into the training set, development set and test set with the ratio of 8:1:1. The data statistics are shown in Table \ref{tab:dataset_statistics}.

\begin{table*}[thp!]
\centering
\resizebox{\textwidth}{35mm}{
\begin{tabular}{l|ccc|cccccc|c}
\toprule
\multirow{2}{*}{Method} & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{Information} & \multicolumn{6}{c|}{Action} &
\multirow{2}{*}{\begin{tabular}[c]{@{}c@{}}Turn\\ CR\end{tabular}} \\
\cline{2-10} & mm & act\_h & scr\_h & \tabincell{c}{Action \\ Type Acc.} & \tabincell{c}{Input \\ EM} & \tabincell{c}{Input \\ F1} & \tabincell{c}{Item \\ Acc.} & \tabincell{c}{Direction \\ Acc.} & CR &  \\
\midrule
Random     & & &         & 14.02      & 8.72   & 17.96   & 9.08    & 51.26         & 5.37                                                      & 3.99                                                    \\
MFM & & & & 53.71      & 14.02   & 37.78   & 16.58    & 89.31         & 8.91                                                      & 0.00                                                    \\
FM & & &    & 37.48      & 6.65   & 14.02   & 9.94    & 81.51         & 10.00                                                      & 6.76                                                    \\
\midrule
LayoytLMv2 & \Checkmark & & & 85.60 & 47.37 & 70.76 & 64.38 & 92.95 & 64.48 & 36.88 \\
LayoutLM      & & & & 82.22      & 83.04   & 90.56   & 71.98    & 94.87        & 67.76  & 38.12  \\
BERT      & & &     & 87.52      & \textbf{93.57}   & \textbf{97.24}   & 82.84    & 93.59         & 78.42                                                      & 52.08                                                    \\
\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ +mm & \Checkmark & & & 88.35 & 92.98   & 96.42   & 84.51    & 94.23 & 80.45 & 53.96 \\
\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ +act\_h & & \Checkmark & & 88.87   & 91.81   & 94.86   & 84.23    & \textbf{95.51} & 80.97  & 55.42 \\
\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ +scr\_h & \Checkmark & & \Checkmark & 89.86 & 90.06   & 95.30   & 84.32    & 94.87 & 81.54  & 55.62 \\
m-BASH & \Checkmark & \Checkmark & \Checkmark & \textbf{90.80} & 91.23   & 96.42   & \textbf{85.90}    & 94.23 & \textbf{82.74}  & \textbf{56.88} \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}}
\caption{The experiment results of the Action Model on the test set. \textbf{Acc.}: accuracy. \textbf{EM}: Exact Match. \textbf{F1}: F1 score. \textbf{CR}: completion rate. \textbf{MFM}: Most Frequent Method. \textbf{FM}: Frequency Method. \textbf{mm}: multi-modal. \textbf{act\_h}: add action histories. \textbf{scr\_h}: add screenshot histories.}
\label{tab:action_model_results}
\end{table*}

\subsection{Experiment Setup}
We train our baselines on the training set and select the best models on the dev set based on the Action completion rate. We use BERT, LayoutLM and LayoutLMv2 as our encoder models\footnote{There are some pre-trained models about GUI understanding, like ActionBERT~\cite{he2020actionbert} and UIBERT~\cite{bai2021uibert}. But they are not open-source.}, which we describe in Appendix \ref{baseline}. We use a batch size of 4 and fine-tune for 8 epochs. We use Adam optimizer with the learning rate of 1e-5. For Response Model, the number of Transformer Decoder Block is 4. We apply the Teacher Forcing algorithm \cite{williams1989learning} during training. When evaluating, we use beam search method for generating the response text. Furthermore, We use three heuristic methods in our experiment, which is shown in Appendix \ref{heuristicmethods}.

For the evaluation of Action Model, We use four kinds of metrics:
completion rate (CR), accuracy, exact match and F1 score. We first define two completion rate metrics: Action completion rate and Turn completion rate. One action is regarded as completed only if the action type and its parameters are correctly predicted. And if all actions in the same turn are completed, then the corresponding turn will be considered completed. The other metrics are introduced in Appendix \ref{evaluationmetrics}.
And we use BLEU score to evaluate the Response Model.

\subsection{Experiment Result}
The experiment results of the Action Model are listed in Table \ref{tab:action_model_results}. We can find that the deep learning methods outperform the heuristic methods, which implies the difficulty of our tasks. Comparing the results of BERT backbone and LayoutLM backbone, we find that BERT model yields better performance. This is because the LayoutLM model was pre-trained on a scanned document image dataset, and there exists a large gap between the Android GUI and the scanned document images. Furthermore, we can find that LayoutLMv2 performs worse than LayoutLM. We hypothesis that LayoutLMv2 uses early-fusion method, which will bring more noises. We can also find that adding multi-modal information leads to a better performance ($52.08\% \rightarrow 53.96\%$). Comparing the performance on each task, we can find that the performance improvement is mainly reflected in the prediction of action type, target item and swipe direction. The reason is that the image information contains some action histories that cannot be represented by text, for example, when filtering conditions on hotel reservation, the selected conditions can be seen through image (as a highlighted button), but can not be reflected through text. Also, the image information can help the model to locate the item more accurately, for example, for a screen with multiple radio buttons, since the BERT model dose not take the position information as input, the model cannot distinguish the corresponding button for each option only through text. To visualize this, we perform a case study, which is shown in Appendix \ref{casestudy}. Furthermore, we find that the performance of input text prediction task degrades after adding image information.
We assume that BERT can successfully model text information, adding visual information will affect the understanding of textual information.

To verify the importance of history information, we add action histories and screenshot histories. From experiment results, we find that adding history information can improve the performance
, and adding action histories leads to greater performance improvement. This is because the multi-modal information already contains some history information, and the screenshot changes a lot before and after operation, which will bring difficulties to the information fusion.

Finally, we add all information, including multi-modal information, action histories and screenshot histories, to the BERT model and get the m-BASH (\textbf{m}ulti-modal \textbf{B}ERT with \textbf{A}ction histories and \textbf{S}creenshot \textbf{H}istories), which results in the state-of-the-art performance ($56.88\%$).

The results of the Response Model are shown in Table \ref{tab:response_model_results}. BERT outperforms LayoutLM and LayoutLMv2 by a large margin, which is consistent with the results of Action Model. We also find that adding multi-modal information and screenshot histories can improve performance.

\begin{table}[]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lc}
\toprule
Method              & Response BLEU score \\
\midrule
Random              & 0.0071         \\
MFM & 0.0929         \\
FM     & 0.0788         \\
\midrule
LayoutLM           & 0.5043         \\
LayoutLMv2 & 0.5820 \\
BERT             & 0.6219 \\
\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ +mm & 0.6224 \\
\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ +scr\_h & \textbf{0.6311} \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}

\caption{The experiment results of Response BLEU score on the test set.}
\label{tab:response_model_results}
\end{table}

\begin{comment}

\begin{figure*}[t]
    \centering
    \subfigure[action completion]{\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{action_prediction.pdf} \label{fig:action_prediction}}
    \subfigure[turn completion]{\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{turn_prediction.pdf} \label{fig:turn_prediction}}
    \subfigure[domain completion]{\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{domain_prediction.pdf} \label{fig:domain_prediction}}
    \caption{(a) The predicted completion of action types. \textbf{WA}: Wrong Action type. \textbf{RA}: Right Action type. \textbf{WP}: Wrong action Parameter. \textbf{RP}: Right action Parameter. (b) The predicted completion rates of turns with respect to different lengths of turns. (c) The turn completion rates of different domains.}
    \label{fig:expresultshow}
\end{figure*}

\end{comment}

\subsection{Generality}
Due to the design of our system, it do not need to pre-define API-related slots, therefore our system has a strong generality.
To show this, we re-partition our dataset:

\paragraph{app generality}  Since we use multiple apps in weather domain and calendar domain, we use the data from one of the apps as the test set, and the other data forms the training set.

\paragraph{domain generality} Similar to app generality, we use the data from one of these domains as the test set, and the other data forms the training set.

We evaluate the performance of m-BASH on these datasets. The results are shown in Table \ref{tab:generality}. We can find that our system can still obtain a reasonable performance, and the results of app generality experiments are even comparable to the main experiment results of LayoutLM. This implies that our system can be easily applied to a new app of a domain that has already been seen. It can also be used to an unseen domain without modification.

\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lcc}
\toprule
\begin{tabular}[c]{@{}l@{}}Data Domain \\ of Test Set\end{tabular} & \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}c@{}}Action \\ Completion\\ Rate (\%)\end{tabular} & \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}c@{}}Turn \\ Completion\\ Rate (\%)\end{tabular} \\
\midrule
\textit{app generality} \\
an app of weather                                                  & 56.45                                                                         & 45.71                                                                       \\
an app of calendar                                                 & 69.84                                                                    & 23.17                                                                  \\
\midrule
\textit{domain generality} \\
weather                                                            & 41.96                                                                    & 21.04                                                                  \\
calendar                                                           & 62.39                                                                    & 19.20                                                                  \\
search                                                             & 59.40                                                                    & 16.24                                                                  \\
taxi                                                               & 37.68                                                                    & 21.72                                                                       \\
restaurant                                                         & 30.26                                                                    & 15.42                                                                  \\
hotel                                                              & 31.24                                                                    & 16.26                                                                  \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\caption{The results of generality experiments.}
\label{tab:generality}
\end{table}

\section{Related Work}
\subsection{Natural Language Commands on GUI}
Executing natural language commands on GUI is getting research interests recently. Some studies focused on semantic parsing~\cite{mazumder2021flin,pasupat2018mapping,xu2021grounding}, whose task is mapping the natural language query to the operations on websites.
Google Duplex~\citep{duplex} can operate websites to finish tasks like booking movie tickets or making restaurant reservations. However, it only supports limited websites and it's more a unified interface than a general dialogue system with GUI operating ability. Our proposed dataset contains real-world APPs and aims at training models with general GUI understanding.

\subsection{Programming by Demonstration on GUI}
Programming by Demonstration (PbD) systems focus on learning GUI tasks from human demonstration~\cite{riva2021etna,li2021glider,li2018kite,li2019pumice}. SUGILITE~\cite{li2017sugilite} records users's operations on GUI and generates a script for the learned task. APPINITE~\cite{li2018appinite} proposed to add descriptions for ambitious actions to enhance the robustness of the generated script. These systems generate scripts based on handcrafted rules and XML analysis, which is sensitive to GUI changes and exceptions.
In this work, we aim to build a robot that can work with general mobile GUI, rather than repeating operations.

\subsection{Visual Dialogue}

More and more researchers combine CV and NLP into dialogue system and are involved into a more challenging task, visual dialogue\cite{le2020video,agarwal2020history,le2020bist}. It can be seen as a multi-step reasoning process over a series of questions~\cite{gan2019multi}. \citet{gan2019multi} updated the semantic representation of the question based on the image and dialogue history. \citet{wang2020vd} proposed VD-BERT, a simple yet effective framework of unified vision-dialog Transformer that leverages the pre-trained BERT language models for Visual Dialog tasks.
Visual dialogue focus on understanding the image contents. Besides this, our tasks also require understanding the interactions between UIs.

\section{Conclusion}
In this paper, we proposed the task of GUI-based task-oriented dialogue system, which replaces the traditional API calls with GUI operations on real APPs. The advantage is that intelligent agents can still perform tasks when the backend API is not available. Besides, it doesn't rely on a domain-specific schema which means it can be applied to a new domain easily. We collect META-GUI, a dataset with dialogues and GUI traces to serve as a benchmark. Our model shows promising results on the dataset but there is still a large gap between human performance, demonstrating the difficulty of our task. In the future, we will explore how to better incorporate GUI traces into our model and build the GUI semantics based on interactions.


Neoclis Silikiotis, the Cyprus Interior Minister, has told Stockwatch that the five bills aimed at speeding up the issue of Title Deeds will be submitted to the Council of Ministers and the Island's Parliament shortly.
ACCORDING to a report in Stockwatch, the five bills aimed at speeding up the issue of Title Deeds, which include an urban planning amnesty, will be submitted to the Council of Ministers and the Parliament shortly.
"Before the end of next week, the Attorney General will finalize the elaboration and the week after the five bills will be submitted to the Council of Ministers and then to the Parliament", the Cyprus Interior Minister Neoclis Silikiotis stated on Friday.
The initial estimate was that the bills would be approved by the Parliament in September 2009.
"Those draft laws aim to facilitate the issue of Title Deeds. The promotion of this approach in the issue of Title Deeds is carried out so as to have substantial results and not only to strengthen the state revenues", he said.
"Our aim is to facilitate the citizens who had not had Title Deeds for years now and to avoid similar phenomena in the future", he reiterated.
Mr. Silikiotis made the statements within the framework of his meeting with the General Secretary of AKEL, Andros Kyprianou, who was informed on the course of the restructuring plans of the local administration.
Last year, the Cyprus Bar Association opposed the three initial draft bills saying that they "will lead us into a labyrinth without solving the problem". Property groups KSIA and CPAG were reported to doubtful that the new laws would resolve all of the problems.
But Savvas Georgiades, of developer Aristo, welcomed the initial proposals saying that: "We believe that the simplification of the whole process will help enormously," adding that "90% of the deeds are not expected to be problematic, with the other 10% having problems regarding unauthorised changes to their plans and these could be corrected by the amnesty measures proposed by the Minister".
It is unclear whether Mr Silikiotis has addressed those initial concerns in the five new bills shortly to be presented to the Council of Ministers and Parliament.
Had home in Cyprus 16 years Title Deeds have been coming every year NEED BROWN PKTS FOR THEM AT THE TOP JUST LIKE ENGLAND ?
The one predictable result of this whole process was that there would be an amnesty for developers. The developers have been relying on it. Why else would they contravene planning laws, change plans without authorisation, to suit themselves, and ignore the requirements of the Town Planning Officers when they demand the contraventions be rectified?
There is another group that has got away with murder on this island and that is the lawyers. Mortgaging land and property to finance building is a legitimate building practice, which comes to light when lawyers work in the best interests of their clients, the purchasers, who, possessing all the facts, can then take an informed decision on whether to purchase or not.
A search for mortgages should be a fixture in any conveyancing solicitor's work for a purchaser….but it isn't. Lawyers faced with loss of income if their clients don't go ahead and purchase mortgaged property prefer not to search. They should be forced by law to do so.
It appears that the biggest problem with the issuing of Title Deeds has been conveniently overlooked.
What new law is going to resolve the huge amount of outstanding developer mortgages.
MAKE THE BANKS ISSUE WAIVERS TO ALL OWNERS WHO HAVE PAID IN FULL. Then we might stand a chance of obtaining our Title Deeds.


Japanese designer Taku Omura takes inspiration from the shape and form of company logos and transforms them into functional 3D-printed objects. Named as "trial and error", in this creative series, Taku uses 3D-printer to create miniature prototypes of these 3D Logos and gives them a new life. Adobe's logo becomes a clothes hanger and the Playstation logo turns to a bookend. LV, twitter, Macdonald, there are many interesting creations listed below and if you want to see more, head over to Omura's twitter page.


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Block-transform lossy image compression is the most widely-used approach for compressing and storing images or video. A novel algorithm to restore highly compressed images with greater image quality is proposed. Since many block-transform coefficients are reduced to zero after quantization, the compressed image restoration problem can be treated as a sparse reconstruction problem where the original image is reconstructed based on sparse, degraded measurements in the form of highly quantized block-transform coefficients. The sparse reconstruction problem is solved by minimizing a homotopic regularized function, subject to data fidelity in the block-transform domain. Experimental results using compressed natural images at di erent levels of compression show improved performance by using the proposed algorithm compared to other methods.


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By Sophie Ruigrok
The Atlantic Project: Excavating Plymouth's Failed Utopias
The pilot biennial plots the English naval city's place in an increasingly globalized age
In the centre of Plymouth's austere civic piazza, skateboarders ride over a large, grey rock. A date, 1620, is raised on its side. The rock is a 3D-scanned, concrete copy of the Plymouth Rock located in Massachusetts, USA – a memorial posited as being the first object that the Pilgrims set foot on after journeying from Plymouth, UK, to the so-called 'New World'. Plymouth Rock is a somewhat underwhelming memorial. Its absence in literature earlier than the 1800s indicates that it may not be a rock of any significance at all, and souvenir-hunters and multiple attempts to relocate it have fractured it, rendering the monument just a fraction of its original size. Back in Plymouth, UK, Danish artist Tommy Støckel's replica, New Plymouth Rock (2018), is supplemented by an app that allows users to simulate the rock's continued, future erosion. By tapping and shaking the screen, virtual slithers scatter and the rock falls apart.
Ryoji Ikeda, The Radar, 2012, The Atlantic Project, Plymouth, 2018. Courtesy: Dom Moore
The multi-media piece is part of a pilot edition for a new biennial in the south-west of England, The Atlantic Project. Led by curator Tom Trevor, the biennial sprawls across 14 sites in Plymouth's city centre, welcoming 20 artists and collectives from 12 countries until 21 October. The roster includes some big international names, from Hito Steyerl to SUPERFLEX. But the project's internationalism runs beyond a desire to fit into the cosmopolitan art festival circuit – it recognizes a highly problematic past of global exchange and interrogates Plymouth's relevance in an increasingly globalized world. With the by-line 'After The Future', the project takes utopian imaginaries as a broad theme. As the date on Støckel's sculpture won't let us forget, Plymouth's maritime past is fraught – with its open access to the Atlantic, the town became associated with maritime exploration, colonialism and the slave trade. In more recent history, the city was extensively bombed during the Plymouth Blitz of the Second World War, and rebuilt with post-war, utopian visions in mind.
Next to the piazza, in the basement of Plymouth's Civic Centre, Kiluanji Kia Henda's film Concrete Affection – Zopo Lady (2014) is on view. Static, wide shots frame the cityscape of Kia Henda's hometown of Luanda, Angola. Besides an off-screen male narrator speaking in Portuguese, we are afforded no human subjects. We accompany the disembodied voice as he ventures past 'huge concrete sculptures', empty streets lined with Modernist buildings and architectural skeletons once destined to become skyscrapers. The work takes inspiration from the book Another Day of Life – Angola 1975, Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski's 1976 account of the country's last months of colonial rule, the exodus of Portuguese colonists and subsequent influx of Angolans from rural areas. It marked a crucial moment of transition for the country.
Donald Rodney, Psalms, 1997, The Atlantic Project, Plymouth, 2018. Courtesy: Dom Moore
One of The Atlantic Project's greatest successes is the contextualization of its artworks within thoughtfully selected public spaces. The monolithic, 14-storey Civic Centre was designed as part of Patrick Abercrombie's grand, post-war plans to rebuild Plymouth. But in the last few decades, the building became too expensive for the city council to run, and has lain empty for years. Kia Henda's film echoes the Modernist architecture of the Civic Centre, as well as the desolation of Plymouth's disused buildings. The parallels drawn between Plymouth and Luanda signify a shared history – although one was once the invader and the other the invaded, these cities both find themselves in the wake of an indelible colonial past.
Across from the Civic Centre, Liu Chuang's performative piece Buying Everything On You (2006–present) occupies a corner of the 5th floor of House of Fraser, originally Dingles department store. A film documents Chuang's attempts to buy individuals's entire possessions in a labour market in Shenzhen, China. Displayed on low plinths are the resulting purchases, intimate details that comprise a person's life – handbags, underwear, credit cards, paperwork, photographs. Again, the work takes on a fresh significance when recontextualized within the floundering British department store. (House of Fraser fell into administration this summer, and was then bought by Sports Direct.) Globalization's all-pervading influence, and economic disappointments, are laid bare.
The Atlantic Project, installation view, 2018, Plymouth. Courtesy: Dom Moore
The Millennium Building on Union Street is the project's highlight. Once a decadent cinema, then reinvented as The Warehouse nightclub in the 1980s, the building has been abandoned since 2004. On the ground floor, Plymouth-based artist Carl Slater's video-works appropriate archival footage to reimagine the euphoria of 1990s club culture. Inhabiting the club's vast dancehall upstairs is an immersive installation by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, who creates audio-visual work from sound in raw states, electronic media, and digital data. In The Radar (2012), monochromatic coordinates and celestial shapes glide across the wall, and an orchestral, meditative soundscape charges the room. As a marine radar repeatedly expands across the screen, emitting a recurring, lonely bleep, Ikeda's work recalls a history of maritime voyages. 'The city's strapline used to be 'Spirit of Discovery', which then went on to become 'Spirit of Disco,'' Trevor tells me. The Radar is only more affecting for the occasional silhouettes that drift by, serving as ghostly reminders of the building's past life, bygone anticipations of a future yet to come.
Main image: The Atlantic Project, installation view, 2018, Plymouth. Courtesy: Dom Moore
Sophie Ruigrok
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NEW DELHI: India is likely to sign the inter- governmental pact for the US tax compliance law FATCA on Thursday, a move that will help it fight tax evasion.
Further, they would be obliged to share data with the government in respect of all new accounts opened from July 1 till December 31, 2014, to enable the government to share this data with US by September 30, 2015.
The financial sector regulators might also publish detailed guidance for implementation of FATCA.


No, it's not the song by the Everly Brothers.
It is the first "Central Mill", built by the Commerce Mining and Royalty Company in 1929-30, a mile west and a mile north of Cardin. Previous to it's construction, all leases had to have their own mill, according to restrictions placed by the Department of Indian Affairs. The restrictions were to make sure each land owner received all that was his due. Poor prices caused three restricted leases to test marginal, along with one unrestricted lease. The plan to construct one mill to serve all four leases was advanced to the Quapaw Indian Agency, and approved.
Notice that the derrick (1) isn't attached to the mill (2) and that the mill is fed by an enclosed conveyor,(3) much like the ones that carry tailings "chat" away. This was something new, in that each mine's ore was processed separately.
#4 is the Pelican Mine, #5 is the Boska, #6 is the Eagle-Picher Gordon, #7 is the Mid-Continent, #8 is the town of Monarch, #9 is the Wilbur, #10 is the town of Treece, and #11 is the Federal Gordon as near as I can tell. I'm not the expert, but I can read a map.


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CLAIM: A photograph taken from the International Space Station shows a Space Shuttle leaving Earth.
WHAT'S TRUE: A photograph shows the Space Shuttle ascending above the clouds.
WHAT'S FALSE: The picture was not taken by the International Space Station, and it has been modified with photographic effects.
Someone posted this picture, claiming "this is a picture of the space shuttle leaving earth taken from the International space station...perspective."
ORIGIN:A photograph purportedly showing a Space Shuttle flying above the clouds, displaying an extended smoke plume as it rises from the Earth, is frequently shared online with the claim that the image was taken from the International Space Station (ISS). While this picture does depict a real event, the image was not taken by a camera on the ISS and has been modified with photographic effects.
What's that rising from the clouds? The space shuttle. If you looked out the window of an airplane at just the right place and time you could have seen something very unusual — the space shuttle Endeavour launching to orbit. Images of the rising shuttle and its plume became widely circulated over the web shortly after Endeavour's final launch. The above image was taken from a shuttle training aircraft and is not copyrighted. Taken well above the clouds, the image can be matched with similar images of the same shuttle plume taken below the clouds. Hot glowing gasses expelled by the engines are visible near the rising shuttle, as well as a long smoke plume. A shadow of the plume appears on the cloud deck, indicating the direction of the Sun. The shuttle Endeavour remains docked with the International Space Station and is currently scheduled to return to Earth next week.


 Macau Local Culture, Local Culture in Macau.
Macau's unique historical background feeds the coexistence of Chinese and western cultures where it serves as a bridge facilitating the cultural exchanges between the East and the West. The Historic Centre of Macau crystallizes the combination of Chinese and western cultures, which is embodied in the local life-styles. Whenever a traditional festival befalls, being a Chinese or western one, festivities will be held accordingly.
Chinese residents in Macau remain in observance of traditional Chinese festivals such as Spring Festival, Pure Brightness Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, among others. The Spring Festival to the local Chinese residents, so you may see a stream of devout worshippers swarming into the Temple of Mazu to show their gratitude for the bliss that Mazu has bestowed on them or to pray for good luck in the coming year from the New Year's Eve to the end of the next day. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the dragon boat race is held annually in the new port, Shui Tangjiao and West Bay.
Also, festivities are held to celebrate festivals with a religious affiliation such as "the grand parade of Jesus' statue," "the grand parade of Maria's statue," the birthday of Mazu, and a grand gathering for dragon and lion dances. The local residents sometimes visit the Cantonese opera performed in a temporary theatrical stage in open air, or join the religious parade and mass with the church. All these various festivities highlight Macau's role as a bridge connecting the East and the West.


Christian Sands | Reach - TheUrbanMusicScene.com | Music Reviews!
In the pursuit of a music industry career, it would be a huge advantage for those passionate musicians to start out young while diligently disciplining themselves in the process with proper guidance by veteran mentors. Composing his first piece at five and turning professional before teenage hood, Christian Sands wowed many fans and gleaming critics with his debut CD. The cover of Footprints spotlights a photo of the pianist as a fifteen year old walking down the beach, who would eventually be developing his own fingerprints with warm piano tones while carrying strong sense of jazz tradition. Despite his jazz training and performances with elite artists like Dr. Billy Taylor, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and band leader/bassist Christian McBride, Sands was enamored by oh so many other influences from rock band Dream Theater, to the hip-hop poetics of A Tribe Called Qwest to electronic dance music. After several independent CD's that focused primarily on the acoustic jazz trio format, the Manhattan School of Music graduate heads in a different direction for his major label bow, Reach, an exploration of his wide musical influences that never sacrifices the improvisational and sanctity in crafting solid jazz music. Reach is propelled by McBride, who sits in the co-production chair in a collaboration that rightfully showcases Sands' sincere musical heart.
A special nod to yet another idol, Chick Corea, launches Reach with "Armando's Song," offering one of several pieces that demonstrates Sands' appreciation for the Latin flavors with his experience playing in local like-minded bands in a wonderful tandem of swing and a tight percussion duet between drummer Marcus Baylor and Cristian Rivera's congas. The Latin kick continues with "Oyeme!", a feverish session from the get-go powered by the pace pushing rhythm section of Baylor and Rivera. "Reaching for the Sun" shines in a samba driven, gently flowing solos from guitarist Gilad Hekselman and Sands.
Tinches of gospel infiltrates "Song of the Rainbow People," in a wonderfully pensive food for thought acknowledging people of all faiths, cultures and races should simply come together for the common good. "Gangsta Lude" delivers a clever concoction of hip-hop grooves and fusion jazz with Hekselman and Sands displaying opposing dynamics in their solos. Reflecting Sands' time at the Manhattan School of Music, "Pointing West" bounces between bop and slices of funk rhythms with saxophonist Marcus Strickland providing sensitive counterpoint and solo work, while "Bud's Tune" humbly honors the work of pianist Bud Powell. "Freefall" is pleasingly framed with sonic splashes in the ECM Records experimental mode — accented with more intense soloing than usual.
While Sands' compositional skills are second to none, his perspective of covers nonetheless impresses. "Somewhere Out There," the hit ballad by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram from the movie, An American Tail, slowly spaces piano chords and single notes with subtle accompaniment from Baylor and bassist Yasushi Nakamura before building to a crescendo in the second half. The Bill Withers' classic, "Still Bill's Blues (Use Me)" keeps that blues vibe but occasionally drifts into swing land before a proper closing from McBride on bowed bass. After all is heard and done on Reach, there are no sour notes to be found from Sands nor anyone else. Five out of five stars.


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NCAA Division 1 Regionals Week: Top Tier Alumni Roundup
by Matt Plante
NCAA Division 1 Regionals: Top Tier Alumni Roundup:
This week we got to see eight of our Top Tier alums take part in the NCAA Division 1 Tournament in all different Regional action. Unfortunately they were all eliminated this past week, but here is how they all performed.
Stillwater Regional:
Dakota Kotowksi, Missouri State
Kotowski went 1 for 12 in the Regional with a homer and 2 RBI's. The Bears lost in the opening game vs. Oklahoma State then came back to beat Grand Canyon only to lose again to Oklahoma State and finished the year 31-29 overall. Kotowski finished the year hitting .242 with 5 doubles, 24 homers, 52 RBI's and a slugging % of .587.
Gainesville Regional:
Nick Ficarrotta, Florida
Ficarrotta made one relief appearance for the Gators throwing 2.1 innings vs. Oklahoma in their first matchup of the weekend where he gave up 3 runs on 4 hits and 2 walks while striking out 4. Florida beat Central Michigan in the opener, then lost to Oklahoma, then beat Central Michigan again and Oklahoma to force a winner take all game vs. Oklahoma yesterday. Florida lost in the Regional Championship to Oklahoma and finished the year 42-24 overall. Ficarrotta finished the year 4-0 with 3 saves in 28 appearances with a 3.90 ERA in 60 innings pitched with 63 strikeouts.
Stephen Hill, Liberty
Hill went 1 for 8 with a double and 2 RBI's in the Gainesville Regional. Liberty lost to Oklahoma in the opener and Central Michigan in the elimination game to finish the year 37-23 overall. Hill finished the year hitting .258 with 12 doubles, 5 homers and 48 RBI's.
Louisville Regional:
Collin Wilma, SEMO
Wilma got the start vs. Oregon in the elimination game of the Louisville Regional. He took the loss going 1.1 innings giving up 6 runs off 6 hits and 1 walk while striking out 1. SEMO lost Louisville in the opener and lost to Oregon in the elimination game to finish the year 37-22 overall. Wilma who was coming back from injury started to pitch sparingly at the end of the season, and his stats for the year were he was 0-3 in the 5 games he started with a 14.40 ERA in just 10 innings of work with 6 strikeouts.
Coral Gables Regional:
Renzo Gonzalez, Miami
Gonzalez went 0 for 5 in his appearances in Regional action. Miami won their opener vs. Canisius but then lost to Ole Miss and Arizona to finish the year 40-20 overall. Gonzalez finished the year hitting .246 with 2 doubles, a triple, 2 homers and 7 RBI's.
Blacksburg Regional:
Will Parkinson, Columbia
Parkinson made one relief appearance vs. Virginia Tech going 1.1 innings giving up 0 runs off 0 hits and 1 walk while striking out 3. Columbia won their opening round game vs. Gonzaga, then lost to Virginia Tech, then beat Gonzaga, only to lose to Virginia Tech in the Regional Finals game and finish the year 32-18 overall. Parkinson finished the year making 9 appearances with 2 starts, having a 7.94 ERA in 11.1 innings pitched with 12 strikeouts.
College Park Regional:
Cam Minacci, Wake Forest
Minacci took the loss in he opener as he tried to the close the opening round game out vs. UConn where he went 1 inning giving up 1 run off 1 hit and 1 walk while striking out 1. Wake Forest lost to UConn then battled back to beat LIU in the elimination game and then lost to Maryland, where Minacci earned one more relief appearance going 0.2 innings giving up 2 runs off 2 hits and 2 walks while striking out 1. Wake Forest finished the year 41-19-1 overall. Minacci finished the year 2-4 with 6 saves out of the bullpen. He had 30 appearances on the year with a 2.18 ERA in 45.1 innings pitched with 59 strikeouts.
Derek Crum, Wake Forest
Crum didn't get any relief appearances in the Regional as Wake Forest lost to UConn, beat LIU and lost to Maryland to finish 41-19-1 overall. Crum finished the year with 20 appearances with a 6.97 ERA in 20.2 innings pitched with 21 strikeouts.
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A delicious, no bake snack sized treat which is perfect pre workout or a snack anytime throughout the day! Made in one bowl, these are gluten free, vegan, refined sugar free, low in fat and very high in fiber- Inspired by the Harry Potter famed beverage butterbeer.
Please tell me you're a fan of Harry Potter fan. If so- this one's for you.
I still remember when I heard the rumour back in 2010 that there was a Harry Potter World being created at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. It was around the time that I had made the decision to do a semester abroad in New York and I may or may not have cemented the fact with this event in itself.
I was late in getting on the Harry Potter train. I think when book four came out, I started the first and was so addicted, I finished all four within a week. Until book 5 came out, I read the previous four over and over again. So much so, I could quote ridiculous, irrelevant sections of it.
"I like REALLY GOOD Quidditch Players".
See? Irrelevant. Anyway, back to Harry Potter World. I did my semester abroad in New York for the Fall semester and purposely planned the first decent holiday break (Rosh Hashanah, I believe) to be the perfect time to escape to Florida. The first two hours I think I took 200 photos in front of all things and everything then went to hunt down something I was very excited to try- A mug of Butterbeer.
Friends, it was like drinking butterscotch syrup. Straight butterscotch syrup.
The first two sips were epic then…not so much. However, it was exactly as what I predicted it to taste like although with random other flavours. I tasted bits of molasses, honey, coconut, but mostly- butterscotch! I shared it with a friend and thought I'd never want to have anything sugary again.
Cue arrival back in New York- I had the aftertaste of butterbeer still in my mouth- This time, however, I was craving it! Too bad, so sad. I'm pretty sure 7/11 did not stock canned butterbeer. I was at a loss.
Cue four years later and being back in Australia and still having a butterbeer craving. Instead of making the drinks (which there are multiple recipes for online- usually with two ingredients- soda and butterscotch syrup)- I decided to attempt an energy bar/bite recipe which had all the flavours I tasted in the drink- butterscotch with hints of coconut, honey and molasses.
These taste like the butterbeer I tasted at Universal Studios, but at a much more acceptable level of sweetness- and trust me, I have a big sweet tooth. They are naturally gluten free, high in protein (if you add the protein powder!) and lower in sugar than it's inspiration. Well, that is stating the obvious. These are perfect before a workout for a quick energy boost or grab a couple to snack on during the day. They also make an epic dessert with vanilla ice cream (do it.). So grab a bowl, grab your ingredients and get ready to be taken to Hogsmeade and Hogwarts.
Please note- These energy bites will not give you powers to ride broomsticks or apparate to another city.
A delicious, no bake snack sized treat which is perfect pre workout or a snack anytime throughout the day! Made in one bowl, these are gluten free, low in sugar, low in fat and very high in fiber- Inspired by the Harry Potter famed beverage butterbeer.
In a frying pan over medium heat, lightly toast the rolled oats and unsweetened coconut for 2-3 minutes. Allow to cool slightly and pour into a large mixing bowl with the sea salt and protein powder if using it.
In a microwave safe bowl, combine the cashew butter,honey and molasses and heat for 2-3 minutes, or until melted. Stir well to combine.
Add the liquid mixture to the dry and mix until fully incorporated. Slowly stir in the 1/4 cup of the butterscotch chips. Using your hands, form small balls with the mixture and dip them in the remaining 1/4 cup of butterscotch chips and set aside on the the covered plate. Refrigerate for at least an hour.
You could try subbing extra for the molasses but it would really detract from the taste. I'd recommend brown rice syrup.
Have a great weekend folks- For those who haven't read Harry Potter- Please do. I'll do a vlog in an english accent with a magic wand in tow if you do.
Are you a butterscotch fan? If you are try a butterbeer from there. It's like straight syrup.
Butterscotch chips are so good!
Funny, I got into Harry Potter a little later too – around when Book 3 came out and had the same experience. I have to go back and re-read them. I haven't gotten to the park yet but have heard the same thing about the Butterbeer – waaaaaaay too sweet. Can't wait to try these babies out.
I was just finishing book 3 when book 4 came out, I still remember buying it and non stop reading it! Got some fab HP memories actually – like queuing at 12 midnight to get the last book and then staying up all night to read it – I finished at 5.30am! Worth it though, could never have slept anyway!
But because I love the books so much I could never watch the films, I didn't want it to spoil the image I have in my head – so HP world is a bit of a no no!
The movies are nothing compared to the books but worth the watch!
Haha, they might. Although you may need to eat a fair few.
Thank you! You need to check out Harry Potter World- so much fun!
Magical. (hahaha I just realized the funny). Omg these sound fantastic! I love cashew butter (thanks for switching it up from Almond butter)! Also, when I lived in NYC, they had the "Quidditch World Championships". No joke.
Thanks buddy! I opted for cashew butter because it's mild tasting!
And NO WAY .1. You lived in NYC and 2. Quidditch?
First, I am not a Harry Potter fan (must I run and hide now?!), but I HAVE been to Universal Studios and love it! Fun times. And I LOVE butterscotch. LOVE. Probably a little too much. 🙂 These really do sound amazing.
GAH! My hubs is obsessed with HP. Like we dressed up like them for Halloween AND he has the movies taped and watches them weekly.
I am totally getting brownie (err..energy bite?) points for making these! Pinned!
Wait…why aren't YOU obsessed with them? Go have ice cream and think about that.
So I have a confession. I've never read any Harry Potter books. I've never watched any Harry Potter movies, either. Can we still be friends? I actually thought these energy bites were made out of butter and beer…but now that I've seen the actual recipe, I think butterscotch is a much more acceptable flavor. I mean who wants butter in their beer anyways? Haha!
Butter and beer? I think you should try it out. Imagine if we were missing out on something!
OMG You genius! I can't believe I haven't gone to the Harry Potter studios here in London. I'm an idiot! I loooved the books.
Ohhhh they just opened it didn't they? Please go for the both of us!
I'm so happy you made these! This is seriously a huge day maker for me. Hopefully Snape and I will have some time to make them this weekend. And I agree with what you said about butterbeer at Harry Potter World. So much sugar! It's hard to get through a whole glass.
You might be surprised to learn that I started my HP obsession later on as well. I went to the first movie at the suggestion of a friend. Okay, she begged me to go, but that's irrelevant. I don't remember if the fourth book was out yet or not, but this was in 2001 (I think). Either way, I became quickly obsessed. Oliver Wood may have had something to do with it. MAYBE.
I miss the Harry Potter movies! So sad it was all over. Thanks for this yummy recipe though! Happy Friday.
Oh man, I was so hoping that these would give me the ability to ride broomsticks 😉 I'll settle for them just being a tasty treat! They look great, and healthy enough that I may share with my kid. Maybe.
Hahaha, maybe if we eat the whole serving, we might be able to?
Good luck whatever your 'style' is lol.
I was always asking myself what the heck butter beer was! Beer made from butter? Melted butter stirred into beer? But without alcohol of course. ?? I think I don't want to try that concoction they sell at Universal Studios 😀 I can imagine these bites to taste amazing though, although I've never had butterscotch anything I think. And those butterscotch chips aren't available here. Sometimes I feel like there isn't anything available here!!!
Urgh, you and me both, Ann- I had to bring them back from America!
I think I'm the only person our age in the world who has never cared for Harry Potter. I guess I missed out on a real childhood gem! Haha. But anything that tastes like butterscotch syrup sounds freaking incredible and I'd definitely give it a shot. Butterscotch is one of those flavors I don't ever crave or think I love but the minute someone bakes something with it in it I just can't get enough!
WHAT. Lauren- You need to rectify that immediately!
I am a huge Harry Potter fan, so when I saw "Butterbeer" you had my attention. These look and sound delicious, and I happen to have all of the ingredients, so if I've got a few minutes today, I might whip up a batch. I completely appreciate someone's ability to come up with a clever and tasty recipe.
Ah I've always wanted to try butterbeer, but I have suspected (apparently correctly) that it would be way too sweet for me.
Oh, I tried your Gingerbread Latte- doubled up on the instant coffee and it was perfect for me!
YES! Glad you liked it- I actually double up the coffee too (sometimes more…what can I say. I love caffeine).
Think oat flour could work instead?
Yes it would work well. Although oat flour isn't paleo.
I haven't seen Harry Potter, so the title of this is a little lost on me, but they look delicious anyway. Cashew butter is my favourite nut butter!
Dannii! What kind of a Brit are you? He's practically you're neighbour!
Oh man the butterbeer in Universal is frankly disgustingly amazing. You know you're just drinking straight sugar, basically like flat cream soda with foam on top, but it's so bad that it's good. I'm glad you're as obsessed with HP as I am. These look great!
Thanks buddy! We need to go to HP World together! I also need to tell you my drunk HP story.
SHUT UP. OMG I need these now!!!! I love Harry Potter almost as much as I love avocado. That's a lot.
Great to see another Harry Potter fan!
I've never read/watched Harry Potter anything. But I know I'd like these weird sounding balls because they have butterscotch. I'm going to add them to my next batch of protein ballzzzzz.
I will force you to watch it, or I'd cast a spell on you.
Although you were inspired by Harry Potter, this recipe reminds me of a Butter Rum Lifesaver but better. Off to the kitchen to make these!
Thank you Michaell! Oh that lifesaver sounds delicious haha!
You're just nailing my favorite flavors lately….gingerbread and butterscotch though not sure if they would taste good together. Probably not but maybe worth an experiment?
Butterbeer is like butterscotch??? Now I feel like I need to hunt some down and try it. I guess if I can't do that I could try your recipe (except I'm far too lazy to make these). Do you ship?
Hahaha in exchange for a green card- of course!
One of my friends tried to make butterbeer over the holidays a few years ago, but she literally just melted butter and butterscotch and tried to combine it with beer. it was AWFUL! haha but it was pretty funny to watch her taste it!
Thanks Liz! I promise they taste better than just butter and butterscotch mixed with beer.
What a perfect idea! I always wanted to try the pumpkin pasties…and the mulled wine…I never made the pasties, but 1 out of 2 isn't bad 😉 I can't wait to make these!
Ohh the caramel bits are terrible- I had to bring these back from America!
Thank you so much but compared to yours- I need to reallllly improve!
I think it's safe to say you and liquid sweeteners are just trouble!
Omg these are epic! I've always been so curious about butterbeer tastes like – I'm glad it tastes as good as it was described in the books. I need to make it down to HP World soon. I've been dying to go since it opened!
Let's go together! It's so much fun- well for a Harry Potter fan.
Well. I expect recommendations of these 'series' you speak of and I'll be the judge of that!
YES! These are like cookie dough and if that doesn't fit- I have a tonne of no bake cookie dough recipes, including ones specifically for breakfast…because that's normal.
Those balls look great! 🙂 I am a Harry Potter fan and actually went to college where they first started playing Quidditch. I saw a lot of people running around with brooms between their legs!
What!!! Why didn't I go to that college!
I got excited when I saw high in fiber. It's the little things that make me happy. The fact they also have caramel only makes them more epic.
Oops. I feel like butterscotch and caramel are practically the same thing. A little bit anyways. Alright fine busted. I caught up on your posts while waiting in line for Chipotle yesterday. It's possible I was slightly distracted, although considering our dining choices in Toronto, it was also perfectly fitting.
How rude. Just kidding. I hope you accidentally got some steak in your burrito.
I need to make these for HP lover, Daliza. And myself. Now I'm sad because I'm not at Universal Studios paying way too much money to be at Harry Potter world even though I'm not a huge HP fan. It's the experience.
It IS the experience- Pray that I get a job offer in 'Merica next year and we can go there and buy a broom stick.
So, I'm totally late to the show here, but you know that I'm in love with these butterbeer bites. First of all, I couldn't agree with you more that Universal's butterbeer is WAAAAAY too sweet! I got really excited about buying it, took a sip, and I just wanted to throw it straight into the trash. Straight up sugar. Quintessential American junk food in a cup.
Also, I love HP, but book 5 was too long. I think the editors could have cut out a third of that book, which was really just Harry whining about growing into his adolescence.
YES! Dude, please tell me your going to the new Harry Potter world like feature in the UK- It wasn't built when I was there but I hear now it's the rage!
Hi Arman! You are funny! That's awesome you lived in NYC for a bit. I used to live in Orlando and NEVER went to Harry Potter world. I even worked at Disney, but I'm really into the Potter series. Although I do love butterscotch. 🙂 Good recipe!
Oh what?! You'll need to check it out! It's a (childhood) fantasy!
Love this recipe. Happy to discover your work and spread the word on pinterest. Cheers!
Kelly, that means the absolute world! Thank you so much!
Loved reading your post! You have a gift for words…as well as food. Sorry, I am NOT a Harry Potter fan, but these energy bites sound superb. You're so good to share your deliciousness with us at Weekend Potluck. Happy New Year to my far away friend!!
Thank you Marsha! Maybe I'll be an author. My book will be called single man with fat lips.
Coming from #SITSSharefest Today. These look great. I have a 9 year old son. This idea for a snack will thrill him.
Nom, nom…I'm sold and would love having these hangin' around for a quick energy booster.
I'm a HUGE HP fan, so I absolutely had to make these! What kind of molasses did you use? I used blackstrap because it's what I had (an abundant resource in the deep south US) and it was way overpowering – it was the only thing you could taste! So disappointed! Mine are also much, much darker in color than yours from the molasses. They're ok but will be amazing if I can get the molasses issue straightened out. I also used toffee bits rather than butterscotch chips, which worked perfectly.
Laurie! Thank you SO much for the feedback! that is the downside of being in Australia- The molasses I used I (later found out) was one of the very light versions they sell here which is similar in colour to corn syrup and much less over powering!
I recreated them a while back specifically for those who use standard molasses and it has been amended. You'll still have the taste but nowhere near as much. I highly recommend brown rice syrup if you can find that- It's milder than honey too!
I'm totally making these. The HP nerd in me can't help but do it.
Hi Arman! I found your recipe through pinterest. My sister & I ("The Pal Gals" as we call ourselves) are doing a Harry Potter marathon for charity on Friday so I've been looking for Butterbeer recipes and stumbled on yours here!
I LOVED it!! I made a few substitutions (allergic to nuts and I didn't have molasses), but WOW. I feel like this'll become a regular snack staple for me!
Pamela! This comment made me so happy because… I LOVE HARRY POTTER! I'm so glad this is a staple snack for you- Please let me know how it all goes, I'm excited for you guys!


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Welcome to MyBinding video. Let's take a look at the features and uniqueness of the Onyx HD7700. This is the top of the line single-punch solution for all your binding needs. Heavy duty and comes with an industry-leading three-year warranty. It's all shipped together with one box and with the Onyx HD7700, you get the Palm switch as well as a foot pedal. Some users prefer the hands-free of the foot pedal and some would rather use the hand they're holding the paper with.
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It seems like everyone's experimenting with making beer at home these days—but you want to make sure your results taste more like your favorite beers, and less like, well, science experiments. We asked eight Certified Cicerones for their advice on how to improve your homebrewing once you've graduated past the beer-in-a-box starter kit. Beyond making sure to have flawless sanitation, what else can you do to brew better beer?
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Seulement comme bruit des chants gutturaux transportés par le vent qui semblent provenir d'une créature lointaine.
I created the illustrations below for the Lovecraftuary Challenge of 2018. Everyday of february I had to draw a specific creature from the Cthulhu mythos.