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: 5333
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 4.6493104e-05
Overall Rank: 7,777 | 45.95%
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	4.9908785e-05
6,965	BOOMER: Blending Visual Formulation and Processing of P-Homomorphic Queries on Large Networks	2018	SIGMOD	4.8759021e-05
9,996	Raqlet: Cross-Paradigm Compilation for Recursive Queries	2026	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
11,273	A Tutorial on Visual Representations of Relational Queries	2023	VLDB	4.1905499e-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
460	Graphs-at-a-time: Query Language and Access Methods for Graph Databases	2008	SIGMOD	0.00022679846
1,419	Graph Pattern Matching: From Intractable to Polynomial Time	2010	VLDB	0.00012072488
1,507	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011594294
2,557	NeMa: Fast Graph Search with Label Similarity	2013	VLDB	8.5484449e-05
2,943	Graph Homomorphism Revisited for Graph Matching	2010	VLDB	7.8463193e-05
3,208	VIIQ: Auto-Suggestion Enabled Visual Interface for Interactive Graph Query Formulation	2015	VLDB	7.3837748e-05
3,707	iGraph: A Framework for Comparisons of Disk-Based Graph Indexing Techniques	2010	VLDB	6.8223857e-05
3,894	Performance and Scalability of Indexed Subgraph Query Processing Methods	2015	VLDB	6.6531173e-05
3,967	SLQ: A User-friendly Graph Querying System	2014	SIGMOD	6.5781961e-05
4,834	Systems for Big-Graphs	2014	VLDB	5.8867916e-05
6,208	Summarizing Answer Graphs Induced by Keyword Queries	2013	VLDB	5.1511024e-05
6,373	On Uncertain Graphs Modeling and Queries	2015	VLDB	5.0875991e-05
6,706	Big Graph Analytics Systems	2016	SIGMOD	4.9501419e-05
7,281	AutoG: A Visual Query Autocompletion Framework for Graph Databases	2016	VLDB	4.7716651e-05
7,292	Data-driven Visual Graph Query Interface Construction and Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities	2016	VLDB	4.7676734e-05
7,867	Graph Data Management Systems for New Application Domains	2011	VLDB	4.6282128e-05
8,723	GBLENDER: Towards Blending Visual Query Formulation and Query Processing in Graph Databases	2010	SIGMOD	4.4546285e-05
9,300	Perseus: An Interactive Large-Scale Graph Mining and Visualization Tool	2015	VLDB	4.3562916e-05

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9,941	VisualNeo: Bridging the Gap between Visual Query Interfaces and Graph Query Engines	2023	VLDB	4.241573e-05
9,886	Graph Exploration: From Users to Large Graphs	2017	SIGMOD	4.2580321e-05
1,040	Querying Graph Databases	2013	PODS	0.00014483577
8,115	Databases will Visualize Queries too*	2011	VLDB	4.5800219e-05
5,593	GBLENDER: Visual Subgraph Query Formulation Meets Query Processing	2011	SIGMOD	5.4172045e-05
2,418	VOGUE: Towards A Visual Interaction-aware Graph Query Processing Framework	2013	CIDR	8.8499974e-05
8,746	Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges	2023	VLDB	4.4520434e-05
7,292	Data-driven Visual Graph Query Interface Construction and Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities	2016	VLDB	4.7676734e-05
5,802	Querying in the Age of Graph Databases and Knowledge Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	5.3209544e-05
6,609	Data-driven Visual Query Interfaces for Graphs: Past, Present, and (Near) Future	2022	SIGMOD	4.9908785e-05