Ball, R. (2012) Don't Search, Just Show Me What I Did: Visualizaing Provenance of Documents and Applications. (To appear).

Ball, R. and Hourcade J.P. (2011) Rethinking Reading for Age from Paper and Computers. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Volume 27, issue 11, pp. 1066-1082.

Ball, R. (2010) Upgrading Human Performance, Not Computer Performance. Graziadio Business Report. Volume 13, issue 1 (January 2010).

Later reprinted as Ball, R. (2010) Size Matters: Three Ways Larger Monitors Boost Productivity. Bay Street Group. February 2010.

Ball, R. and North, C. (2007) Realizing Embodied Interaction for Visual Analytics through Large Displays. Computers & Graphics (C&G) Special Issue on Visual Analytics. Volume 31, issue 3, (2007), pp. 380-400. Top Cited Article 2005-2010 Award.

Sabri, A., Ball, R., Bhatia, S., Fabian, A., and North, C. (2007) High-Resolution Gaming: Interfaces, Notifications and the User Experience. Interacting with Computers Journal. Volume 19, issue 2 (March 2007), pp. 151-166.

Howarth, J.R., Pyla, P.S., Yost, B., Haciahmetoglu, Y., Young, D., Ball, R., Lambros, S., and Layne, P. (2007) Designing a Conference for Women Entering Academe in the Sciences and Engineering. Advancing Women in Leadership (AWL). Volume 24, Spring 2007.

Ball, R.and North, C. (2008) The Effects of Peripheral Vision and Physical navigation on large Scale Visualization. In Graphics Interface 2008, pp. 9 - 16. Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Ball, R., North, C., and Bowman, D. (2007) Move to Improve: Promoting Physical Navigation to Increase user Performance with Large Displays. In ACM's CHI 2007 (full paper), pp. 191 - 200. CHI 2007 Honorable Mention Award Paper (nominated as one of the top 5% of all the full papers). San Jose, CA.

Ball, R., Pyla, P., and Perez-Quinones, M. (2007) OSI and ET: Originating Source of Information and Evidence Traceability. In ACM's CHI 2007 (Work-in-progress), pp. 2261 - 2266. San Jose, CA.

Ball, R., DellaNoce, M., Ni, T., and North, C. (2006) Applying Embodied Interaction and Usability Engineering to Visualization on Large Displays. In British HCI - V&I 2006, pp. 57-65. London, UK.

Shupp, L., Ball, R., Yost, B., Booker, J., and North, C. (2006) Evaluation of Viewport Size and Curvature of Large, High-Resolution Display. In Graphics Interface (GI) 2006, pp. 123-130. Quebec City, Canada.

Ni, T., Schmidt, G., Staadt, O., Livingston, M., Ball, R., May, R. (2006) A Survey of Large High-Resolution Display Technologies, Techniques, and Applications. In IEEE Virtual Reality 2006, pp. 223-234. Alexandria, Virginia.

Ball, R., Varghese, M., Sabri,A., Cox, E.D., Fierer, C., Peterson, M., Carstensen, B., and North, C. (2005) Evaluating the Benefits of Tiled Displays for Navigating Maps. In IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (IASTED-HCI 2005), pp. 66-71. Phoenix, Arizona.

Ball, R., Sabri, A., and North, C. (2005) High-Resolution Displays Facilitating Greater Insight in a Dynamic Environment. In IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization Proceedings Compendium (InfoVis), pp. 5-6. Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Ball, R. and North, C. (2005) An Analysis of User Behavior on High-Resolution Tiled Displays. In Tenth IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2005), pp. 350-364. Rome, Italy.

Ball, R. and North, C. (2005) Effects of Tiled High-Resolution Display on Basic Visualization and Navigation Tasks. In Extended abstracts of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005), pp. 1196-1199. Portland, Oregon.

Ball, R., Fink, G.A., and North, C. (2004) Home-Centric Visualization of Network Traffic for Security Administration. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Workshop on Visualization and Data Mining for Computer Security 2004, (VizSEC 2004), pp. 55-64. Fairfax, Virginia.

Huang, F., Deccio, C., Ball, R., Clement, M., and Snell, Q. (2004) A Piecewise Linear Approach to Overbooking. In IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2004), pp. 326-331. Phoenix, Arizona.

Ball, R., Clement, M., Huang, F., Snell, Q., and Deccio, C. (2004) Aggressive Telecommunications Overbooking Ratios. In 23rd IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC) 2004, pp. 31-39. Phoenix, Arizona.

Ball, R., Szwedo, M., and North, C. (2006) Dynamic size and speed cursor for large, high-resolution displays. Technical Report TR-06-16, Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. July 2006.

"Understanding How Older Adults Read from Large and Small Screens." Stephen F. Austin State University Minigrant, $2,500. Summer 2010.

"Exploring Open Source Software: Development and Efficacy of Online Learning Environments in Computer Science."; NSF (National Science Foundation), $261,167. Summer 2009.

"Understanding How Explicit Versus Implicit Citations Differ."; University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, Student/Faculty Collaborative Research Program Award: student Michael Schuh with Robert Ball, $3,000. Summer 2008.

"Ultra-High Resolution, Interactive Information Visualization."; ARDA/DTO, $497,933. 2003-2006.