Emmanouil Xylakis is a PhD student at the Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta. He received his Msc degree in Lighting design from Aalborg University, Copenhagen in 2018, focusing on the use of Virtual Reality as a design tool during the process of Architectural design. His Phd work focuses on the affective potential of our surrounding environments combining the fields of Affective Computing, Virtual environments, Environmental psychology and Human Computer Interaction.