AssistGUI: Task-Oriented PC Graphical User Interface Automation

Graphical User Interface (GUI) automation holds significant promise for assisting users with complex tasks, thereby boosting human productivity. Existing works leveraging Large Language Model (LLM) or LLM-based AI agents have shown capabilities in automating tasks on Android and Web platforms. However, these tasks are primarily aimed at simple device usage and entertainment operations. This paper presents a novel benchmark, AssistGUI, to evaluate whether models are capable of manipulating the mouse and keyboard on the Windows platform in response to user-requested tasks. We carefully collected a set of 100 tasks from nine widely-used software applications, such as, After Effects and MS Word, each accompanied by the necessary project files for better evaluation. Moreover, we propose a multi-agent collaboration framework, which incorporates four agents to perform task decomposition, GUI parsing, action generation, and reflection. Our experimental results reveal that our multi-agent collaboration mechanism outshines existing methods in performance. Nevertheless, the potential remains substantial, with the best model attaining only a 46\% success rate on our benchmark. We conclude with a thorough analysis of the current methods' limitations, setting the stage for future breakthroughs in this domain.