AI RESEARCH
Beyond Screenshots: Evaluating VLMs' Understanding of UI Animations
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.26148v1 Announce Type: cross AI agents operating on user interfaces must understand how interfaces communicate state and feedback to act reliably. As a core communicative modality, animations are increasingly used in modern interfaces, serving critical functional purposes beyond mere aesthetics. Thus, understanding UI animation is essential for comprehensive interface interpretation. However, recent studies of Vision Language Models (VLMs) for UI understanding have focused primarily on static screenshots, leaving it unclear how well these models handle dynamic UI animations.