Her research interests span the areas of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), and health informatics. She has conducted research on using touchless interaction in the operating room, the challenges with training gestural systems, how to sense and perceive movement qualities, the place for gestural interaction in the home, and designing for somaesthetic awareness through movement in the dark. She has also employed a variety of methods in her work, but primarily performs participant observations and interviews throughout a design research process.