A comparison of tiled and overlapping windows
CHI '86 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Defining constraints graphically
CHI '86 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Communications of the ACM
Metamouse: specifying graphical procedures by example
SIGGRAPH '89 Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
SSD '90 Proceedings of the first symposium on Design and implementation of large spatial databases
Principles of visual languages
Principles of visual programming systems
Visual interface design systems
Principles of visual programming systems
Direct spatial search on pictorial databases using packed R-trees
SIGMOD '85 Proceedings of the 1985 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
The design and implementation of INGRES
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Human Factors Studies of Database Query Languages: A Survey and Assessment
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Communications of the ACM
A relational model of data for large shared data banks
Communications of the ACM
SIMULA: an ALGOL-based simulation language
Communications of the ACM
ELFS: English language from SQL
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
GEO-OUEL: a system for the manipulation and display of geographic data
SIGGRAPH '77 Proceedings of the 4th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
PICQUERY: A High Level Query Language for Pictorial Database Management
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An Efficient Pictorial Database System for PSQL
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Visual User Interface for Map Information Retrieval Based on Semantic Significance
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An Object-Oriented Knowledge Representation for Spatial Information
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Geo-Relational Algebra: A Model and Query Language for Geometric Database Systems
EDBT '88 Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology
Extending a DBMS for Geographic Applications
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Data Engineering
Molecular Objects, Abstract Data Types, and Data Models: A Framework
VLDB '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Towards a Spatial Query Language: User Interface Considerations
VLDB '88 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Context-sensitive, graphic presentation of information
SIGGRAPH '82 Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
SIGGRAPH '82 Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Weaknesses of commercial data base management systems in engineering applications
DAC '80 Proceedings of the 17th Design Automation Conference
A prototype Spatial Data Management System
SIGGRAPH '80 Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Natural language with integrated deictic and graphic gestures
HLT '89 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
Semiology of graphics
An architecture and data model for CAD databases
VLDB '85 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Very Large Data Bases - Volume 11
Application of DBMS to land information systems
VLDB '81 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Very Large Data Bases - Volume 7
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Computer
Query-by-example: a data base language
IBM Systems Journal
SEQUEL 2: a unified approach to data definition, manipulation, and control
IBM Journal of Research and Development
GeoST: geographic, thematic and temporal information retrieval from heterogeneous web data sources
W2GIS'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Web and wireless geographical information systems
Multi-criteria geographic information retrieval model based on geospatial semantic integration
GeoS'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on GeoSpatial semantics
Quality assessment of Landsat surface reflectance products using MODIS data
Computers & Geosciences
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In the past, the design of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has been investigated in a bottom-up manner. At the same time, little consideration has been paid to those system components with which users have immediate contact such as languages to query spatial objects, or the user interface. Considerations about the interaction between the users and spatial data are of primary importance for these issues. The domain of this paper is the investigation of interactive spatial query languages that allow users to pose ad hoc queries against a geographic information system. Its motivation has been the observation that traditional database query languages are insufficient for the treatment of spatial properties. Deficiencies observed include the disregard of user concerns and the lack of support for renderings of query results in forms other than text. This paper presents a methodology for the design of interactive spatial query languages which are embedded into a human interface. The methodology is based upon the users' interactions with spatial objects, which are graphically rendered on a screen, and their pertinent operations. Objects and operations are provided at the conceptual level of the user interface and complemented by the selection of appropriate techniques to interact with spatial objects rendered on a screen. A number of spatial concepts are presented which are crucial for the design of a GIS query language. In a series of interface snapshots their incorporation into a human interface is presented, simulating the interaction between a user and a GIS.