Human-Database Interaction: A Holistic Approach

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→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.