Human Database Interaction: A Holistic Apporach (lightning talk abstract)
Published in the 34th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE, 2018
Abstract
There has been an increasing interest into blurring the line between human-interaction and database systems. Several research papers tackled the Human-Database Interaction (HDI) challenge, yet none of them provides a holistic HDI approach. In this talk, we briefly describe $dbTinder$, a database engine that bridges the gap between the conversation approach humans use to interact and the Query$\rightarrow$Answer approach used in classic database systems. To achieve that, dbTinder turns HDI into an intent discovery process where the system pro-actively converses with the user to guide her towards potentially interesting tuples in the database.