A System That Supports Using Student-Drawn Diagrams to Assess Comprehension of Mathematical Formulas. - Steven L. Tanimoto; William Winn; David Akers (Diagrams, 2002)

Conveying Shape and Features with Image-Based Relighting. - David Akers; Frank Losasso; Jeff Klingner; Maneesh Agrawala; John Rick; Pat Hanrahan (IEEE Visualization, 2003)

Exploration of the Brain's White Matter Pathways with Dynamic Queries. - David Akers; Anthony J. Sherbondy; Rachel Mackenzie; Robert F. Dougherty; Brian A. Wandell (IEEE Visualization, 2004)

Exploring Connectivity of the Brain's White Matter with Dynamic Queries. - Anthony J. Sherbondy; David Akers; Rachel Mackenzie; Robert F. Dougherty; Brian A. Wandell (IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2005)

Wizard of Oz for participatory design: inventing a gestural interface for 3D selection of neural pathway estimates. - David Akers (CHI Extended Abstracts, 2006)

CINCH: a cooperatively designed marking interface for 3D pathway selection. - David Akers (UIST, 2006)

Observation-based design methods for gestural user interfaces. - David Akers (CHI Extended Abstracts, 2007)

Undo and erase events as indicators of usability problems. - David Akers; Matthew Simpson; Robin Jeffries; Terry Winograd (CHI, 2009)

Backtracking events as indicators of software usability problems. - David Akers (2010)

Backtracking Events as Indicators of Usability Problems in Creation-Oriented Applications. - David Akers; Robin Jeffries; Matthew Simpson; Terry Winograd (ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2012)