Her work and research deal primarily with soft computation: electronic textiles, responsive clothing as wearable technology, reactive materials, and squishy interfaces. She is a co-founder of International Fashion Machines in Boston, where she developed the first electronic ink wearable animated display and Electric Plaid , an addressable color-change textile. She received her Masters of Science from MIT for her work titled Computational Expressionism . She also worked with the Tangible Media Group of the MIT Media Lab on research projects such as musicBottles .