Her research focuses on the ways that technologies designed for health and wellbeing position and support individuals as they age. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University with the Technology and Social Behavior Program, completed her PhD in Biomedical and Health Informatics at the University of Washington and received her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Her research has received Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards at the ACM CHI, DIS, CSCW, and UbiComp conferences.