Querying Without Keyboards

Summary: Shows non-keyboard (gesture/voice/touch) UIs produce incremental, ambiguous, multimodal, low-bandwidth query workloads that break assumptions of traditional query representations and optimizers. Presents a composable DB architecture using existing components to enable incremental, multimodal query representation and evaluation. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 199
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.3692734e-05
Overall Rank: 5,084 | 65.13%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Arnab Nandi (Ohio State University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{nandi_cidr13,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '13},
        title = {{Querying Without Keyboards}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Nandi, Arnab},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,004	Democratizing Data Science through Interactive Curation of ML Pipelines	2019	SIGMOD	0.00012701932
1,198	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011706307
2,946	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.93259e-05
3,930	Data Canopy: Accelerating Exploratory Statistical Analysis	2017	SIGMOD	7.0102082e-05
5,738	SpeakQL: Towards Speech-driven Multimodal Querying of Structured Data	2020	SIGMOD	6.1045268e-05
6,693	GestureQuery: A Multitouch Database Query Interface	2013	VLDB	5.7992988e-05
11,831	ARQuery: Hallucinating Analytics over Real-World Data using Augmented Reality	2019	CIDR	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 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
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
2,087	Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm	2011	VLDB	9.1914119e-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

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