Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm

Summary: Guided interaction replaces the query-result paradigm with a data-driven assistant across formulation, execution, and result exploration. It uses data content to offer cues, enabling aborts of unproductive directions and faster information needs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h9d13f6c0d6b296b7
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 8.9671737e-05
Overall Rank: 2,141 | 85.65%
DOI: 10.14778/2182251.2182255

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Authors

1. Arnab Nandi (University of Michigan)
2. H. V. Jagadish (University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@article{nandi_vldb11,
        title = {{Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm}},
        author = {Nandi, Arnab and Jagadish, H. V.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1466--1477},
        doi = {10.14778/2182251.2182255},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2182251.2182255},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
536	An Analytical Study of Large SPARQL Query Logs	2018	VLDB	0.00016738841
1,072	NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012143482
1,220	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011449992
1,383	H2O: A Hands-free Adaptive Store	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010826996
2,500	A Demonstration of the BigDAWG Polystore System	2015	VLDB	8.3598881e-05
2,618	dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips	2013	CIDR	8.1988906e-05
3,016	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.7360586e-05
4,304	Exploratory Keyword Search with Interactive Input	2015	SIGMOD	6.6592914e-05
4,312	NoDB in Action: Adaptive Query Processing on Raw Data	2012	VLDB	6.6567338e-05
5,168	Querying Without Keyboards	2013	CIDR	6.2335584e-05
6,111	Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases	2016	VLDB	5.8672641e-05
6,293	Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa	2015	CIDR	5.8045404e-05
7,026	SnapToQuery: Providing Interactive Feedback during Exploratory Query Specification	2015	VLDB	5.6017142e-05
12,197	Data Pipelines for User Group Analytics	2019	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
321	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021093212
951	Aqua: A Fast Decision Support System Using Approximate Query Answers	1999	VLDB	0.00012886042
1,312	Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces	2007	SIGMOD	0.00011061014
3,125	The CompleteSearch Engine: Interactive, Efficient, and Towards IR & DB Integration	2007	CIDR	7.6059776e-05

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