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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
11095
Venue
VLDB
Year
2014
Pagerank
7.93259e-05
Overall Rank
2,946 | 79.79%
DOI
10.14778/2732240.2732248

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@article{nandi_vldb14,
        title = {{Gestural Query Specification}},
        author = {Nandi, Arnab and Jiang, Lilong and Mandel, Michael},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {4},
        pages = {289--300},
        doi = {10.14778/2732240.2732248},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2732240.2732248},
        year = {2014}
}

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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
314 Making Database Systems Usable 2007 SIGMOD 0.00021574636
517 Query by Output 2009 SIGMOD 0.00017169735
846 SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL 2011 VLDB 0.00013658824
931 Aqua: A Fast Decision Support System Using Approximate Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00013125812
1,305 Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces 2007 SIGMOD 0.00011235196
1,429 Finding and Approximating Top-k Answers in Keyword Proximity Search 2006 PODS 0.00010811133
1,526 Ordering the Attributes of Query Results 2006 SIGMOD 0.00010491673
1,702 Schema Summarization 2006 VLDB 9.9697258e-05
1,862 MindReader: Querying databases through multiple examples 1998 VLDB 9.5951515e-05
2,087 Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm 2011 VLDB 9.1914119e-05
2,559 dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips 2013 CIDR 8.4156672e-05
2,616 FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML 2004 SIGMOD 8.339188e-05
2,905 SQL QueRIE Recommendations 2010 VLDB 7.9756156e-05
5,084 Querying Without Keyboards 2013 CIDR 6.3692734e-05
6,048 Visual Interfaces to Data 2010 SIGMOD 5.994983e-05
6,893 Skimmer: Rapid Scrolling of Relational Query Results 2012 SIGMOD 5.7446791e-05
7,209 EXTRUCT: Using Deep Structural Information in XML Keyword Search 2010 VLDB 5.6723214e-05
8,174 Databases will Visualize Queries too 2011 VLDB 5.4738201e-05
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