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: 7.7360586e-05
Overall Rank: 3,016 | 79.79%
DOI: 10.14778/2732240.2732248
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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)

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1,220	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011449992
1,875	Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation	2015	CIDR	9.4433754e-05
4,073	Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results	2016	SIGMOD	6.8067223e-05
5,589	SpeakQL: Towards Speech-driven Multimodal Querying	2019	SIGMOD	6.0560187e-05
5,843	FluxQuery: An Execution Framework for Highly Interactive Query Workloads	2016	SIGMOD	5.9558503e-05
5,877	SpeakQL: Towards Speech-driven Multimodal Querying of Structured Data	2020	SIGMOD	5.9450095e-05
6,111	Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases	2016	VLDB	5.8672641e-05
6,195	Evaluating Interactive Data Systems: Workloads, Metrics, and Guidelines	2018	SIGMOD	5.8374071e-05
6,648	Data Tweening: Incremental Visualization of Data Transforms	2017	VLDB	5.7049236e-05
6,663	Combining Design and Performance in a Data Visualization Management System	2017	CIDR	5.7001805e-05
7,026	SnapToQuery: Providing Interactive Feedback during Exploratory Query Specification	2015	VLDB	5.6017142e-05
8,295	NOAH: Interactive Spreadsheet Exploration with Dynamic Hierarchical Overviews	2021	VLDB	5.344057e-05
9,625	Breathing Life into Database Textbooks	2015	CIDR	5.1371542e-05
11,831	A Tutorial on Visual Representations of Relational Queries	2023	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,182	ARQuery: Hallucinating Analytics over Real-World Data using Augmented Reality	2019	CIDR	4.9605343e-05
12,235	Enabling Data Science for the Majority	2019	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,359	DataTweener: A Demonstration of a Tweening Engine for Incremental Visualization of Data Transforms	2017	VLDB	4.9605343e-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
321	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021093212
520	Query by Output	2009	SIGMOD	0.00016910379
864	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00013358173
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
1,450	Finding and Approximating Top-k Answers in Keyword Proximity Search	2006	PODS	0.00010593808
1,558	Ordering the Attributes of Query Results	2006	SIGMOD	0.000102274
1,745	Schema Summarization	2006	VLDB	9.7195373e-05
1,921	MindReader: Querying databases through multiple examples	1998	VLDB	9.3580039e-05
2,141	Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm	2011	VLDB	8.9671737e-05
2,618	dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips	2013	CIDR	8.1988906e-05
2,677	FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML	2004	SIGMOD	8.1266688e-05
2,899	SQL QueRIE Recommendations	2010	VLDB	7.8825624e-05
5,168	Querying Without Keyboards	2013	CIDR	6.2335584e-05
6,184	Visual Interfaces to Data	2010	SIGMOD	5.8417587e-05
7,010	Skimmer: Rapid Scrolling of Relational Query Results	2012	SIGMOD	5.6056366e-05
7,359	EXTRUCT: Using Deep Structural Information in XML Keyword Search	2010	VLDB	5.5286487e-05
8,359	Databases will Visualize Queries too	2011	VLDB	5.3311423e-05

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