CBM
- 1 May 2000
- proceedings article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- p. 242-245
- https://doi.org/10.1145/345513.345326
Abstract
This paper describes a novel visual query interface model, called Cartoon-Based Model (CBM), which aims at assisting novice database users to understand the content of a database with the views that they are mostly familiar with. CBM is different from previously proposed graphical query interfaces, many of which are based on semantic data models. CBM suggests a new dictum for building a next generation user-friendly database query interface: Visual query interfaces should be built based upon the "perception" (e.g., cartoon diagrams in our case) that the user would possess about the data content, not the artificially modeled view that a database designer would possess. A prototype has been constructed to demonstrate the soundness and feasibility of the proposed model.Keywords
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