Graph Querying Meets HCI: State of the Art and Future Directions

Summary: Survey of visual graph querying interfaces that bridge SPARQL/Cypher and HCI for researchers. Manual/data-driven UIs, visual query construction guidance, and interactive processing with visual result exploration; open problems and future directions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5332
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 4.653773e-05
Overall Rank: 7,775 | 45.92%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3054774

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,609	Data-driven Visual Query Interfaces for Graphs: Past, Present, and (Near) Future	2022	SIGMOD	4.9956718e-05
6,971	BOOMER: Blending Visual Formulation and Processing of P-Homomorphic Queries on Large Networks	2018	SIGMOD	4.8792893e-05
9,997	Raqlet: Cross-Paradigm Compilation for Recursive Queries	2026	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
11,271	A Tutorial on Visual Representations of Relational Queries	2023	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
461	Graphs-at-a-time: Query Language and Access Methods for Graph Databases	2008	SIGMOD	0.00022499343
1,414	Graph Pattern Matching: From Intractable to Polynomial Time	2010	VLDB	0.00012118275
1,552	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011408814
2,551	NeMa: Fast Graph Search with Label Similarity	2013	VLDB	8.5572574e-05
2,938	Graph Homomorphism Revisited for Graph Matching	2010	VLDB	7.8524059e-05
3,202	VIIQ: Auto-Suggestion Enabled Visual Interface for Interactive Graph Query Formulation	2015	VLDB	7.3911717e-05
3,720	iGraph: A Framework for Comparisons of Disk-Based Graph Indexing Techniques	2010	VLDB	6.8192237e-05
3,955	SLQ: A User-friendly Graph Querying System	2014	SIGMOD	6.5910012e-05
4,072	Performance and Scalability of Indexed Subgraph Query Processing Methods	2015	VLDB	6.4727847e-05
4,830	Systems for Big-Graphs	2014	VLDB	5.8924342e-05
6,210	Summarizing Answer Graphs Induced by Keyword Queries	2013	VLDB	5.1560547e-05
6,393	On Uncertain Graphs Modeling and Queries	2015	VLDB	5.0837624e-05
6,709	Big Graph Analytics Systems	2016	SIGMOD	4.9529145e-05
7,279	Data-driven Visual Graph Query Interface Construction and Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities	2016	VLDB	4.779057e-05
7,285	AutoG: A Visual Query Autocompletion Framework for Graph Databases	2016	VLDB	4.7762476e-05
7,865	Graph Data Management Systems for New Application Domains	2011	VLDB	4.6326563e-05
8,726	GBLENDER: Towards Blending Visual Query Formulation and Query Processing in Graph Databases	2010	SIGMOD	4.4593116e-05
9,295	Perseus: An Interactive Large-Scale Graph Mining and Visualization Tool	2015	VLDB	4.3604709e-05

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9,941	VisualNeo: Bridging the Gap between Visual Query Interfaces and Graph Query Engines	2023	VLDB	4.2456408e-05
9,887	Graph Exploration: From Users to Large Graphs	2017	SIGMOD	4.2621158e-05
1,037	Querying Graph Databases	2013	PODS	0.00014502493
8,111	Databases will Visualize Queries too*	2011	VLDB	4.5842786e-05
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2,428	VOGUE: Towards A Visual Interaction-aware Graph Query Processing Framework	2013	CIDR	8.8367608e-05
8,750	Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges	2023	VLDB	4.456315e-05
7,279	Data-driven Visual Graph Query Interface Construction and Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities	2016	VLDB	4.779057e-05
5,792	Querying in the Age of Graph Databases and Knowledge Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	5.325937e-05
6,609	Data-driven Visual Query Interfaces for Graphs: Past, Present, and (Near) Future	2022	SIGMOD	4.9956718e-05