# Kite: Building Conversational Bots from Mobile Apps

Derives task graphs from demonstrated Android app interactions and layers a conversational question-answer interface over those graphs. The evaluation examines task-model extraction and developer use of the resulting bot templates.

- Catalog URL: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/url-901ca855640457dfe2f1/
- Original source: https://doi.org/10.1145/3210240.3210339
- Kind: paper
- Review: curated
- Scope: core
- Environments: android
- Topics: mobile-navigation, workflow, human-in-the-loop
- Evidence checked: 2026-10-17T09:59:27Z
- ID: url:901ca855640457dfe2f1

## Limitations

The annotation was reviewed against retained primary publication sources. Experiments have not been independently reproduced.

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## Authors

Toby Jia-Jun Li, Oriana Riva

## Citation exports

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## Publication record

- Title: Kite: Building Conversational Bots from Mobile Apps
- Authors: Toby Jia-Jun Li, Oriana Riva
- Publication date (recorded precision): 2018-06
- Publication source: https://doi.org/10.1145/3210240.3210339
- Publication BibTeX: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/url-901ca855640457dfe2f1/publication-citation.bib
- Publication CSL JSON: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/url-901ca855640457dfe2f1/publication-citation.csl.json
- venue: The 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services
- doi: 10.1145/3210240.3210339
- date basis: Supplied month precision: 2018-06. Publication line: MobiSys 2018, June 2018
- identity basis: No same-work record located in the full active catalog. Similarity screening was not used as automatic identity approval. The raw archive and exclusions are additionally checked during normalization.
- notes: Final proceedings page range and volume are not established in the retained first-party citation. The paper states a 14-page extent, not a page range. Exact publication day is unknown.
- Publication evidence: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/kite-building-conversational-bots-mobile-apps/, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/kite_mobisys18.pdf

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## Primary evidence

- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/kite-building-conversational-bots-mobile-apps/ (retrieved 2026-10-17T09:59:26Z; SHA-256 e2f5403d77f563ec6a88458e32d057559a8f8ba4d2a80304e70c2c793fb60bb5)
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- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/kite-building-conversational-bots-mobile-apps/ (retrieved 2026-10-17T09:59:26Z; SHA-256 e2f5403d77f563ec6a88458e32d057559a8f8ba4d2a80304e70c2c793fb60bb5)