She was co-chair of the Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-W) from 2014–2017.
[1][citation needed] Brush currently focuses on home automation research and co-leads the Lab of Things project, a publicly available platform for experimental research using connected devices in homes.
Brush's research on the challenges and opportunities of smart homes based on interviews with people living in smart homes[2] informed the design of the Lab of Things software.
[4] Brush and her collaborators conducted research on family coordination and calendaring[5] and built prototypes[6] that influenced Windows Live Calendar and the Windows Phone Family Room feature.
[8] She has co-developed and tested multiple alternative paradigms for user account management that better match shared usage.