GestureQuery: A Multitouch Database Query Interface

Summary: GestureQuery maps multitouch gestures on tablets directly to SQL queries, enabling users to manipulate data interactively. Immediate constructive feedback supports rapid query refinement and, in preliminary studies, outperforms console SQL and visual builders in usability and construction speed. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10798
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 5.7992988e-05
Overall Rank: 6,693 | 54.09%
DOI: 10.14778/2536274.2536311

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Authors

1. Lilong Jiang (Ohio State University)
2. Michael Mandel (Ohio State University)
3. Arnab Nandi (Ohio State University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{jiang_vldb13,
        title = {{GestureQuery: A Multitouch Database Query Interface}},
        author = {Jiang, Lilong and Mandel, Michael and Nandi, Arnab},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {12},
        doi = {10.14778/2536274.2536311},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2536274.2536311},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,004	Democratizing Data Science through Interactive Curation of ML Pipelines	2019	SIGMOD	0.00012701932

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
314	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021574636
1,305	Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces	2007	SIGMOD	0.00011235196
1,862	MindReader: Querying databases through multiple examples	1998	VLDB	9.5951515e-05
5,084	Querying Without Keyboards	2013	CIDR	6.3692734e-05

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