SIERRA: A Counterfactual Thinking-based Visual Interface for Property Graph Query Construction

Jiebing Ma; Sourav S. Bhowmick; Lester Tay; Byron Choi

doi:10.1145/3626246.3654729

SIERRA: A Counterfactual Thinking-based Visual Interface for Property Graph Query Construction

Jiebing Ma
, Sourav S. Bhowmick
, Lester Tay
, Byron Choi

Department of Computer Science

Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

4 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Attractive visual query interfaces (VQIs) have great potential to democratize the usage of property graph databases as they facilitate user-friendly query formulation without demanding the need to learn a property graph query language e.g.Cypher. Existing VQIs, however, do not embrace HCI principles and psychology theories to inform their design and as a result may limit their potential due to usability andaesthetics challenges. In this demonstration, we present a novelcounterfactual thinking -based (i.e. theory-informed) VQI called SIERRA for property graph query construction to address this limitation. It realizes a novel visual abstraction calledlabeled composite graph (LCG) and avisual shape definition language to create and maintain an LCG during query construction guided by theories and principles from HCI, visualization and psychology.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SIGMOD-Companion 2024 - Companion of the 2024 International Conferaence on Management of Data
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	440-443
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400704222
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3626246.3654729
Publication status	Published - 9 Jun 2024
Event	2024 International Conferaence on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2024 - Santiago, Chile Duration: 9 Jun 2024 → 15 Jun 2024 https://2024.sigmod.org/ (conference website) https://2024.sigmod.org/2024-program.shtml (conference program)

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
ISSN (Print)	0730-8078

Conference

Conference	2024 International Conferaence on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2024
Country/Territory	Chile
City	Santiago
Period	9/06/24 → 15/06/24
Internet address	https://2024.sigmod.org/ (conference website) https://2024.sigmod.org/2024-program.shtml (conference program)

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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counterfactual thinking
property graph queries
query construction
visual query interface

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Ma, J., Bhowmick, S. S., Tay, L., & Choi, B. (2024). SIERRA: A Counterfactual Thinking-based Visual Interface for Property Graph Query Construction. In SIGMOD-Companion 2024 - Companion of the 2024 International Conferaence on Management of Data (pp. 440-443). (Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3626246.3654729

Ma, Jiebing ; Bhowmick, Sourav S. ; Tay, Lester et al. / SIERRA : A Counterfactual Thinking-based Visual Interface for Property Graph Query Construction. SIGMOD-Companion 2024 - Companion of the 2024 International Conferaence on Management of Data. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024. pp. 440-443 (Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data).

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Ma, J, Bhowmick, SS, Tay, L & Choi, B 2024, SIERRA: A Counterfactual Thinking-based Visual Interface for Property Graph Query Construction. in SIGMOD-Companion 2024 - Companion of the 2024 International Conferaence on Management of Data. Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 440-443, 2024 International Conferaence on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2024, Santiago, Chile, 9/06/24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626246.3654729

SIERRA: A Counterfactual Thinking-based Visual Interface for Property Graph Query Construction. / Ma, Jiebing; Bhowmick, Sourav S.; Tay, Lester et al.
SIGMOD-Companion 2024 - Companion of the 2024 International Conferaence on Management of Data. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024. p. 440-443 (Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data).

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Ma J, Bhowmick SS, Tay L, Choi B. SIERRA: A Counterfactual Thinking-based Visual Interface for Property Graph Query Construction. In SIGMOD-Companion 2024 - Companion of the 2024 International Conferaence on Management of Data. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2024. p. 440-443. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data). doi: 10.1145/3626246.3654729

SIERRA: A Counterfactual Thinking-based Visual Interface for Property Graph Query Construction

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