| 2016 | VDA | Multiple Independent Highlighting Techniques. | Colin Ware, Nicholas J. Pioch |
| 2012 | VDA | Designing a better weather display. | Colin Ware, Matthew Plumlee |
| 2009 | SMC | Designing Flow Visualizations for Oceanography and Meteorology using Interactive Design Space Hill Climbing. | Colin Ware, Peter Mitchell, John G. W. Kelley |
| 2008 | DIAGRAMS | Visual Thinking with an Interactive Diagram. | Colin Ware, Anne T. Gilman, Robert J. Bobrow |
| 2005 | ICRA | A System for Real-Time Spatio-Temporal 3-D Data Visualization in Underwater Robotic Exploration. | Stephen C. Martin, Louis L. Whitcomb, Roland Arsenault, Matthew Plumlee, Colin Ware |
| 2005 | VDA | Exploring causal influences. | Eric Neufeld, Sonje Kristtorn, Qingjuan Guan, Manon J. Sanscartier, Colin Ware |
| 2004 | IV | The Effect of a Perceptual Syntax on the Learnability of Novel Concepts. | Pourang Irani, Colin Ware |
| 2003 | VISSOFT | Thinking with Interactive Visualization (Tutorial/Keynote). | Colin Ware |
| 2002 | AVI | A method for the perceptual optimization of complex visualizations. | Donald H. House, Colin Ware |
| 2002 | AVI | Zooming, multiple windows, and visual working memory. | Matthew Plumlee, Colin Ware |
| 2001 | CHI | Visual interference with a transparent head mounted display. | Robert S. Laramee, Colin Ware |
| 2001 | Interact | Moving Icons: Detection and Distraction. | Lyn Bartram, Colin Ware, Tom Calvert |
| 2000 | AVI | Diagrams Based on Structural Object Perception. | Pourang Irani, Colin Ware |
| 2000 | CHI | Eye-hand co-ordination with force feedback. | Roland Arsenault, Colin Ware |
| 2000 | GD | The Visual Representation of Information Structures. | Colin Ware |
| 1998 | CHI | Real handles, virtual images. | Colin Ware, Jeff Rose |
| 1997 | CGI | Integrating Flying and Fish Tank Metaphors with Cyclopean Scale. | Colin Ware, Daniel J. Fleet |
| 1997 | CHI | An Environment that Integrates Flying and Fish Tank Metaphors. | Daniel J. Fleet, Colin Ware |
| 1996 | CHI | Vection with Large Screen 3D Imagery. | Kathy Lowther, Colin Ware |
| 1996 | CHI | Moving Motion Metaphors. | Colin Ware |
| 1995 | CHI | Dynamic Stereo Displays. | Colin Ware |
| 1995 | CHI | The DragMag image magnifier. | Colin Ware, Marlon Lewis |
| 1994 | CHI | Virtual hand tool with force feedback. | Ravin Balakrishnan, Colin Ware, Tim Smith |
| 1994 | CHI | Passive force feedback for velocity control. | Mark Andrew Paton, Colin Ware |
| 1993 | CHI | Lag as a determinant of human performance in interactive systems. | I. Scott MacKenzie, Colin Ware |
| 1993 | CHI | Fish tank virtual reality. | Colin Ware, Kevin Arthur, Kellogg S. Booth |
| 1992 | CHI | Orderable Dimensions of Visual Texture for Data Display: Orientation, Size and Contrast. | Colin Ware, William Knight |
| 1989 | CHI | Bat brushes: on the uses of six position and orientation parameters in a paint program. | Colin Ware, Curtis Baxter |
| 1987 | CHI | An evaluation of an eye tracker as a device for computer input2. | Colin Ware, Harutune H. Mikaelian |