Dr. Fox researches how technological artifacts challenge or propagate social exclusions by examining existing systems and building alternatives. Her recent work investigates the role of internet of things (IoT) devices in maintaining public resource accessibility. Drawing together methods and theory from human computer interaction, design, and science and technology studies, she examines recent industry and policy initiatives aimed at ensuring the availability of menstrual products in public sites (e.g. shelters, schools), as well as participatory grassroots design programs operating alongside these efforts. While menstrual health may at first seem unrelated to emergent digital systems, her research shows how access to public resources plays out in relation to an increasingly computational landscape of maintenance infrastructure and governance. Further, by both building networked devices and facilitating collaborative activities, her work reveals a need to design for infrastructures of care across institutional and political bounds. This research draws on her commitment to develop socially just systems designed to support the needs of those marginalized within society (here, those without regular access to housing or everyday hygiene resources).Over the next few years, her research agenda extends in two core directions. The first examines computing technologies for intimate sensing, or networked devices embedded within everyday objects that track bodies (e.g. a soap dispenser that monitors how frequently one washes one's hands). These systems are on the verge of being introduced broadly across public and private spheres and are poised to have unique and lasting effects on the privacy and autonomy of those being sensed, as well as the responsibility of workers entrusted with handling such data. The second project analyzes efforts to design a civic internet of things, interrogating how such technologies are being used to cultivate new forms of participation in modern life.