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Gestural Query Specification

Summary: Gestural Query Specification enables querying databases via gesture sequences, not SQL. Gesture recognizer leverages interaction context and DB state to map gestures to relational queries; showing lower latency and higher usability than prior interfaces. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10907
Venue
VLDB
Year
2014
Pagerank
7.4117439e-05
Overall Rank
3,188 | 77.83%
DOI
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1,552 Overview of Data Exploration Techniques 2015 SIGMOD 0.00011408814
2,097 Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation 2015 CIDR 9.5489822e-05
4,365 Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results 2016 SIGMOD 6.2542811e-05
5,523 SpeakQL: Towards Speech-driven Multimodal Querying of Structured Data 2020 SIGMOD 5.4605231e-05
5,644 FluxQuery: An Execution Framework for Highly Interactive Query Workloads 2016 SIGMOD 5.3924275e-05
5,747 SpeakQL: Towards Speech-driven Multimodal Querying 2019 SIGMOD 5.3420215e-05
5,867 Combining Design and Performance in a Data Visualization Management System 2017 CIDR 5.296418e-05
6,054 Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases 2016 VLDB 5.2325754e-05
6,444 Evaluating Interactive Data Systems: Workloads, Metrics, and Guidelines 2018 SIGMOD 5.059132e-05
6,564 SnapToQuery: Providing Interactive Feedback during Exploratory Query Specification 2015 VLDB 5.0087945e-05
6,627 Data Tweening: Incremental Visualization of Data Transforms 2017 VLDB 4.9886939e-05
8,174 NOAH: Interactive Spreadsheet Exploration with Dynamic Hierarchical Overviews 2021 VLDB 4.568186e-05
9,293 Breathing Life into Database Textbooks 2015 CIDR 4.3613443e-05
11,271 A Tutorial on Visual Representations of Relational Queries 2023 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,637 ARQuery: Hallucinating Analytics over Real-World Data using Augmented Reality 2019 CIDR 4.1945683e-05
11,691 Enabling Data Science for the Majority 2019 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,812 DataTweener: A Demonstration of a Tweening Engine for Incremental Visualization of Data Transforms 2017 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
257 Making Database Systems Usable 2007 SIGMOD 0.00030223397
492 Query by Output 2009 SIGMOD 0.00021974699
967 Aqua: A Fast Decision Support System Using Approximate Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00014959939
994 Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces 2007 SIGMOD 0.00014755845
1,009 SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL 2011 VLDB 0.00014653644
1,073 Finding and Approximating Top-k Answers in Keyword Proximity Search 2006 PODS 0.00014264992
1,258 Ordering the Attributes of Query Results 2006 SIGMOD 0.00013013676
1,271 Schema Summarization 2006 VLDB 0.00012923966
1,608 MindReader: Querying databases through multiple examples 1998 VLDB 0.00011151257
1,840 dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips 2013 CIDR 0.0001034905
1,907 Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm 2011 VLDB 0.00010136636
2,704 FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML 2004 SIGMOD 8.2720556e-05
3,093 SQL QueRIE Recommendations 2010 VLDB 7.5782293e-05
4,834 Querying Without Keyboards 2013 CIDR 5.8912496e-05
5,526 Visual Interfaces to Data 2010 SIGMOD 5.4600047e-05
6,822 Skimmer: Rapid Scrolling of Relational Query Results 2012 SIGMOD 4.9152454e-05
7,148 EXTRUCT: Using Deep Structural Information in XML Keyword Search 2010 VLDB 4.8174598e-05
8,111 Databases will Visualize Queries too* 2011 VLDB 4.5842786e-05
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