User Interfaces; Who Cares?

Summary: Panel on why database user-interface research remains peripheral despite its importance to requirements and adoption. Surveys emerging challenges from multimedia, novel DBMSs, and interface technologies, and proposes ways to strengthen UI contributions at VLDB. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8435
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
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Overall Rank: 14,326 | 1.72%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Stefano Spaccapietra (EPFL)

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@article{spaccapietra_vldb94,
        title = {{User Interfaces; Who Cares?}},
        author = {Spaccapietra, Stefano},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        pages = {751},
        year = {1994}
}

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