Lenia Margariti, PhD

Workshops

  • 2025 - Speaker - MidJourney Prompt Engineering Seminar, TORUS, Newcastle University, UK
  • 2024 - Contributor - Smart Infrastructure Workshop for the Campus and the Health Innovation Neighborhood, Newcastle University, UK.
  • 2024 - Organizer & Facilitator - Human – Building Interaction and Design for Climate Change, ACM DIS, Copenhagen.
  • 2021 - Facilitator - Design Thinking Workshop: Using Data to Support Student Learning, Newcastle University, UK
  • 2019 - Facilitator - Facilitating Design Thinking OPEN2019 INT. Internal Design Thinking Workshop at Deutsche Telekom, Budapest, Hungary.

Teaching

  • 2024, 2025 Interaction Design Module (IXD), MSc Human Computer Interaction, Newcastle University, UK.

Publications

Top-Tier Conference Papers

  • [Honorable Mention] Margariti, E., Vlachokyriakos, V., Durrant, AC., and Kirk, D., 2024. Evaluating ActuAir: Building Occupants’ Experiences of a Shape-Changing Air Quality Display. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 515, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642396
  • Margariti, E., Claisse, C., Nabil, S., Bridgens, B., Durrant, A C., and Kirk, D., 2024. Human Building Interaction and Design for Climate Change. In Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ‘24 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 462–466. https://doi.org/10.1145/3656156.3658386
  • Margariti, E., Vlachokyriakos, V., and Kirk, D., 2023. Understanding occupants’ experiences in quantified buildings: results from a series of exploratory studies. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg,Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581256
  • Margariti, E., Rintel, S., Murphy, B., and Abigail Sellen, A., 2022. Automated mapping of competitive and collaborative over- lapping talk in video meetings. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 311, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519612

Journal Articles

  • Benthem de Grave R, Bull CN, Monjardino de Souza Monteiro D, Margariti E, McMurchy G, Hutchinson JW, Smeddinck JD., 2024. Smartphone Apps for Food Purchase Choices: Scoping Review of Designs, Opportunities, and Challenges. J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e45904, doi: 10.2196/45904
  • Margariti, E.K., Ali, R., Benthem de Grave, R., Verweij, D., Smeddinck, J., Kirk, D., 2021. Understanding the Experiences of Remote Workers:Opportunities for Ambient Workspaces at Home. Frontiers in Computer Science 3, 673585. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2021.673585
  • Margariti, E., Travlou, S., 2018.’Sharing within a city in crisis: Two ICTs-supported P2P economic networks in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece’, International Journal of Electronic Governance, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 196-217. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEG.2018.10009145

Under Review

  • (Accepted) Margariti, E., Vlachokyriakos, V., Durrant, A., and Kirk, D. 2025. Co-designing for Wellbeing for the Hybrid Smart Workplace. Special issue on “Healthy Habitats—Innovative Approaches to Creating Built Environments That Support Health and Wellbeing” for the Journal of Architecture (ISSN: ISSN: 2673-8945)
  • (Under review) Czech, E., Margariti, E., Morgan, C., Whone, A., Durrant, A., Kirk, D., O’Kane, A., O’Hara, K., and Craddock, I. 2026. ’Carer-as-Sensor’: Understanding the Need for Observer Inclusion in Clinical Trials for Parkinson’s. ACM Trans. Comput. Healthcare 1, 1, Article 111 (June 2026), 22 pages. Doi: xxxxxxxx
  • (Under review) Margariti, E., Czech, E., Morgan, C., Whone, A., Durrant, A., Kirk, D., O’Kane, A., O’Hara, K., and Craddock, I. 2026. Life-Space Movement Capture: Interpreting Passive Sensing of Parkinson’s for Clinical Trials. ACM Trans. Comput.- Hum. Interact. (TOCHI) 37, 4, Article 111 (May 2026), 30 pages. Doi: xxxx
  • (Upcoming submission) Margariti, E., Czech, E., O’Kane, A., O’Hara, K., Durrant, A., Kirk, D., and Craddock, I. 2026. Cognitive Workflows within Teams involving GenAI for Storyboard-led Research.

Workshop papers

  • Margariti, E., Vlachokyriakos, V., Durrant, A., and Kirk, D., 2024. Investigating New Models of Consent for Human-Centered AI in the Built Environment. Workshop HabiTech: Inhabiting Buildings, Data & Technology (ACM CHI’24 Conference)
  • Margariti, E., Kirk, D., 2022. Actuated Materials and Soft Robotics Strategies for Human-Computer Interaction Design: Workshop on Soft Robotics for HCI (ACM CHI’22 Conference)
  • Onabolu, T. and Margariti, E., (2019 [2017]), Decentralized Autonomous Housing, Ubiquity: The Journal of Pervasive Media, 6, pp. 65–72, doi: 10.1386/ubiq_00008_1