Her research focuses on social interaction through and around mobile and ubiquitous technologies, particular in relation to issues of privacy, friendship maintenance, location-reporting and game playing. She looks at the intersection of technology and social interaction by combining the development of prototype applications with newly adopted commercial technologies. Her recent work includes studies of social media as facilitators of ad-hoc socializing and analyses of privacy issues within ubiquitous computing research. Before coming to Stockholm University and the Mobile Life Centre, Louise Barkhuus was working as a research scientist at the University of California, San Diego, serving as the PI of an NSF funded project on technologies for supporting social science research.