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
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
Capturing Food Culture for Adaptive AI: Generative Insights from a Multimodal Profiling Study.
Zeynep Erol, Emily Groves, Sebastian Baez Lugo, Nicolas Henchoz, Margherita Motta. 2026. Capturing Food Culture for Adaptive AI: Generative Insights from a Multimodal Profiling Study. In Tareq Ahram and Adrian Morales Casas (Eds.), 2026 Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies (IHIET-AI): Artificial Intelligence and Future Applications (AHFE) International Conference.
Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies (IHIET-AI)