Graph querying meets HCI: State of the art and future directions

Sourav S. Bhowmick, Byron Choi, Chengkai Li

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Abstract

Querying graph databases has emerged as an important research problem for real-world applications that center on large graph data. Given the syntactic complexity of graph query languages (e.g., SPARQL, Cypher), visual graph query interfaces make it easy for non-expert users to query such graph data repositories. In this tutorial, we survey recent developments in the emerging area of visual graph querying paradigm that bridges traditional graph querying with human computer interaction (HCI). We discuss manual and data-driven visual graph query interfaces, various strategies and guidance for constructing graph queries visually, interleaving processing of graph queries and visual actions, and visual exploration of graph query results. In addition, the tutorial suggests open problems and new research directions. In summary, in this tutorial we review and summarize the research thus far into HCI and graph querying in the database community, giving researchers a snapshot of the current state of the art in this topic, and future research directions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGMOD 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Conference on Management of Data
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages1731-1736
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450341974
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 May 2017
Event2017 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2017 - Chicago, United States
Duration: 14 May 201719 May 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
VolumePart F127746
ISSN (Print)0730-8078

Conference

Conference2017 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago
Period14/05/1719/05/17

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