Zeynep Erol
Zeynep Erol is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher who holds a BSc in Computer Science Engineering from METU, Turkey, and has completed an MSc in Digital and Interaction Design at Politecnico di Milano.
Her interests lie at the intersection of User Experience (UX), interaction design, and computational creative technologies, with a focus on creating meaningful experiences. In her academic research, she has explored contextual storytelling using machine learning. Her master’s thesis focused on the concept of Animacy, examining the perception of aliveness for robotic design with a multidisciplinary approach.
At the lab, Zeynep is a research assistant for a European project called SWITCH, with a focus on food, sustainability, health, and artificial intelligence.
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