Margherita Motta
Margherita is a designer and researcher. She holds a BS and a MS in Communication Design from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a MAS in Design Research for Digital Innovation from the EPFL+ECAL Lab. She’s passionate about exploring the internet, investigating artistic practice and building meaningful digital interfaces and experiences.
At the lab she works as a project manager, senior interaction designer and design lead. She works on projects ranging from sustainability to digital well-being and health. She also jointly coordinates the MAS in Design Research for Digital Innovation and gives courses on user studies and qualitative research methods.
Related projects
Scientific publications
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)
Cultural Resonance – understanding food cultures to inform adaptive AI for healthy and sustainable eating
Emily Groves, Zeynep Erol, Sebastien Baez Lugo, Nicolas Henchoz, Margherita Motta. 2025. Cultural Resonance – understanding food cultures to inform adaptive AI for healthy and sustainable eating. In IASDR 2025: Design Next, December 02, 2025. Design Research Society.
IASDR 2025
