Emily Groves
Emily is a designer, researcher and educator. She has a BSc in Human Sciences from University College London, an MA in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art, and an MAS in Design Research for Digital Innovation from the EPFL+ECAL Lab. Her interests lie at the intersection of culture, technology and food.
At the lab, Emily works as a project manager, design lead and academic lead on several projects ranging from digital well-being to prospective design. She also coordinates the MAS in Design Research for Digital Innovation, giving courses in academic writing and research methods, and running the Design Research Seminar.
Related projects
Scientific publications
Reflection, proactive guidance and microlearning: Evaluation of a conversational agent for food literacy.
Emily Groves, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Gabriel Luthier, Andrea Rovescalli, Delphine Ribes, Nicolas Henchoz, and Margherita Motta. 2026. Reflection, proactive guidance and microlearning: Evaluation of a conversational agent for food literacy. In Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–20.
NordiCHI 2026
Designing for food system transformation: Navigating cultural complexity in cross-regional platform design.
Margherita Motta, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Luis Rodriguez Aguayo, Laura Deschl, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Groves. 2026. Designing for food system transformation: Navigating cultural complexity in cross-regional platform design, in Simeone, L., Gray, C. M., Verhoeven, A., de Götzen, A., Bakırlıoğlu, Y., Zohar, H., Stead, M., and Buwert, P. (eds.), DRS2026: Edinburgh, 8–12 June, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
DRS Design Research Society