Her interests include theory and research on images across media, disciplines, and cultures. Funding for her research is through Rensselaer, the Society for Technical Communication, National Science Foundation, Google and AIGA, the professional association for design. Her monograph, Engendering Interaction with Images, appeared 2012 by Intellect Books (Chicago University Press). The chapter she penned, The Rise of Research in Graphic Design, introduced the collection she edited titled Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design (Princeton Architectural Press). She is co-editor of the Icograda Design Education Manifesto 2011 and founder of GLIDE, a biennial virtual conference on global interaction in design education.