Gestural Query Specification

Summary: Gestural Query Specification enables querying databases via gesture sequences, not SQL. Gesture recognizer leverages interaction context and DB state to map gestures to relational queries; showing lower latency and higher usability than prior interfaces. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hccfab0109cdf54ec
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 7.7645915e-05
Overall Rank: 3,003 | 79.82%
DOI: 10.14778/2732240.2732248

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Arnab Nandi (Ohio State University)
2. Lilong Jiang (Ohio State University)
3. Michael Mandel (Ohio State University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{nandi_vldb14,
        title = {{Gestural Query Specification}},
        author = {Nandi, Arnab and Jiang, Lilong and Mandel, Michael},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {4},
        pages = {289--300},
        doi = {10.14778/2732240.2732248},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2732240.2732248},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,215	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011492648
1,871	Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation	2015	CIDR	9.464979e-05
4,046	Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results	2016	SIGMOD	6.8325379e-05
5,576	SpeakQL: Towards Speech-driven Multimodal Querying	2019	SIGMOD	6.0789878e-05
5,829	FluxQuery: An Execution Framework for Highly Interactive Query Workloads	2016	SIGMOD	5.9783397e-05
5,862	SpeakQL: Towards Speech-driven Multimodal Querying of Structured Data	2020	SIGMOD	5.9675576e-05
6,093	Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases	2016	VLDB	5.8894913e-05
6,182	Evaluating Interactive Data Systems: Workloads, Metrics, and Guidelines	2018	SIGMOD	5.8588933e-05
6,634	Data Tweening: Incremental Visualization of Data Transforms	2017	VLDB	5.7264653e-05
6,647	Combining Design and Performance in a Data Visualization Management System	2017	CIDR	5.7217042e-05
7,011	SnapToQuery: Providing Interactive Feedback during Exploratory Query Specification	2015	VLDB	5.6218692e-05
8,272	NOAH: Interactive Spreadsheet Exploration with Dynamic Hierarchical Overviews	2021	VLDB	5.3643259e-05
9,591	Breathing Life into Database Textbooks	2015	CIDR	5.156637e-05
11,781	A Tutorial on Visual Representations of Relational Queries	2023	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,132	ARQuery: Hallucinating Analytics over Real-World Data using Augmented Reality	2019	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
12,186	Enabling Data Science for the Majority	2019	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,310	DataTweener: A Demonstration of a Tweening Engine for Incremental Visualization of Data Transforms	2017	VLDB	4.9793485e-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
319	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021164857
518	Query by Output	2009	SIGMOD	0.00016944862
861	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00013402933
948	Aqua: A Fast Decision Support System Using Approximate Query Answers	1999	VLDB	0.00012914559
1,311	Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces	2007	SIGMOD	0.00011065979
1,445	Finding and Approximating Top-k Answers in Keyword Proximity Search	2006	PODS	0.0001063035
1,557	Ordering the Attributes of Query Results	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010266055
1,733	Schema Summarization	2006	VLDB	9.7551427e-05
1,912	MindReader: Querying databases through multiple examples	1998	VLDB	9.3904326e-05
2,129	Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm	2011	VLDB	8.9960018e-05
2,605	dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips	2013	CIDR	8.229938e-05
2,666	FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML	2004	SIGMOD	8.1566309e-05
2,883	SQL QueRIE Recommendations	2010	VLDB	7.9108916e-05
5,168	Querying Without Keyboards	2013	CIDR	6.2460238e-05
6,167	Visual Interfaces to Data	2010	SIGMOD	5.8627705e-05
6,992	Skimmer: Rapid Scrolling of Relational Query Results	2012	SIGMOD	5.6267971e-05
7,335	EXTRUCT: Using Deep Structural Information in XML Keyword Search	2010	VLDB	5.5493346e-05
8,343	Databases will Visualize Queries too	2011	VLDB	5.3513352e-05

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