Staff Profile

I am a postdoctoral researcher in TORUS programme. My research interests lie in Human-Building-Interaction, Human-Centred Smart Buildings and IoT/Adaptive Architecture for health and wellbeing. My work is primarily design-led, exploring how technologies and interfaces can support health and wellbeing in data-rich environments.

I am interested in the design of technologies that address the spatial context and the experiences in it, bringing my academic background in architecture within HCI & Ubicomp Research. My PhD unpacked the experiences of the building occupants in a smart office building, focusing on the use of Air Quality data for wellbeing in that context. Through design research, I explored how physical interfaces can enhance data awareness in the workplace.

I have experience working with sensory data; mixed methods of data analysis; and strong skills in digital and physical prototyping. In the past, I have worked as a user experience researcher in Microsoft Research, Digital Transformation Analyst (including UX/UI design and prototyping in AR/VR), Visual Designer, and Architectural Designer.

I hold a PhD in Human Computer Interaction, MSc Architecture, and SCQF8 in Software Design and Development.

Demonstrated in

• CSC2033: Software Engineering Team Project [2021]
• CSC3231: Graphics for Games [2020]
• CSC3223: Graphics for Games [2020/21]

• Articles

  • Margariti E, Vlachokyriakos V, Durrant A, Kirk D. Co-Designing for Wellbeing in the Hybrid Smart Workplace. Architecture 2026, 6(2), 77.
  • Benthem de Grave R, Bull CN, Souza-Monteiro DM, Margariti E, McMurchy G, Hutchinson JW, Smeddinck JD. Smartphone Apps for Food Purchase Choices: Scoping Review of Designs, Opportunities, and Challenges. JMIR 2024, 26, e45904.
  • Margariti EK, Ali R, Benthem de Grave R, Verweij D, Smeddinck J, Kirk D. Understanding the Experiences of Remote Workers: Opportunities for Ambient Workspaces at Home. Frontiers in Computer Science 2021, 3, 673585.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Margariti E, Claisse C, Nabil S, Bridgens B, Durrant A, Kirk D. Human Building Interaction and Design for Climate Change. In: ACM Designing Interactive Systems. 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark: Association for Computing Machinery.
  • Margariti E, Vlachokyriakos V, Durrant AC, Kirk D. Evaluating ActuAir: Building Occupants' Experiences of a Shape-Changing Air Quality Display. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). 2024, Honolulu, Hawaii: Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.
  • Margariti E, Vlachokyriakos V, Kirk D. Understanding occupants’ experiences in quantified buildings: results from a series of exploratory studies. In: 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23). 2023, Hamburg, Germany: ACM.
  • Margariti E, Rintel S, Murphy B, Sellen A. Automated mapping of competitive and collaborative overlapping talk in video meetings. In: CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA: ACM.
  • Margariti E, Kirk D. ActuAir: Exploring Physicalizations of Air Quality at the Workplace. In: Actuated Materials and Soft Robotics Strategies for Human-Computer Interaction Design: Workshop on Soft Robotics for HCI (ACM CHI'22 Conference). 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA: ACM.