Her research focuses on designing, prototyping, and evaluating technology to support the needs of people working both individually and together to achieve health-related goals. Her studies related to communicating patient-centered health information have been recognized by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) through a Dissertation Award in 2012 and by the NSF through a CAREER award in 2017. She was selected to join the Inaugural Class of the ACM Future of Computing Academy in 2017. In addition to chairing WISH, Lauren serves on the technical program committee for ACM CHI 2018. As a PhD student, Lauren was part of the organizing committee for the first Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare, held at ACM CHI in 2010.