Transparency


A taxonomy of see-through tools (1994)
Eric A. Bier, Maureen C. Stone, Ken Fishkin, William Buxton and Thomas Baudel

The "Silk Cursor": investigating transparency for 3D target acquisition (1994)
Shumin Zhai, William Buxton and Paul Milgram

Transparent layered user interfaces: an evaluation of a display design to enhance focused and divided attention (1995)
Beverly L. Harrison, Hiroshi Ishii, Kim J. Vicente and William A. S. Buxton

Using small screen space more efficiently (1996)
Tomonari Kamba, Shawn A. Elson, Terry Harpold, Tim Stamper and Piyawadee Sukaviriya

Another transparency paper (Professor Harpold may disagree).

An experimental evaluation of transparent menu usage (1997)
Beverly L. Harrison and Kim J. Vicente

Multiagent model of dynamic design: visualization as an emergent behavior of active design agents (1997)
Suguru Ishizaki

This is also a paper about transparency (and more). Ishizaki's stuff is beautiful...