| dbpprop:abstract
|
- Living Lab is a new research paradigm integrating both: a user-centric multidisciplinary research approach a user community driven innovation based on real life experiments It is intended to: increase the understanding of occurring phenomena explore and evaluate new ideas, concepts and related ICT artefacts confront new ideas, concepts and related ICT artefacts with users' value model enable re-usable experiments (i.e. dataset, research protocols and methods,.. ) result in more accurate and reliable products and services speed-up concepts to market and promote viral adoption contribute to initiate potential lead markets contribute to bring science and innovation closer to the citizen Living Lab is more than experimental facility as its philosophy is to turn users, from being traditionally considered as a problem, into value creation Other definitions: "Living Labs represent a user-centric research methodology for sensing, prototyping, validating and refining complex solutions in multiple and evolving real life contexts. " Impact and benefits: Living Labs integrate the user into the development process ensuring highly reliable market evaluation Reduction of technology and business risks Good for SME, micro-organizations and start-ups, since they can share resources without so much venture capital Large companies have access to a broader base of ideas Prof William Mitchell, MediaLab and School of Architecture and city planning, MIT, Boston "Living Labs are environments for innovation and development where users are exposed to new ICT solutions in (semi)realistic contexts, as part of medium- or long-term studies targeting evaluation of new ICT solutions and discovery of innovation opportunities. " Asbjørn Følstad, SINTEF ICT, Oslo, Norway Other available descriptions: PlaceLab "The mission of House_n is to conduct research by designing and building real living environments - "living labs" - that are used to study technology and design strategies in context. The PlaceLab is a joint MIT and TIAX, LLC initiative. It is a residential condominium in Cambridge, Massachusetts, designed to be a highly flexible and multi-disciplinary observational research facility for the scientific study of people and their interaction patterns with new technologies and home environments. " ExperienceLab ExperienceLab is the embodiment of Sense & Simplicity: developing technology not for technology’s sake, but to create products that enhance people’s lives in a meaningful way. It’s about listening to our customers and consumers to understand what motivates them, what they want and what they really need. This is the goal of ‘experience research’, with the existing HomeLab, and its new sisters – CareLab and ShopLab. ” inHaus The inHaus innovation center is the cooperation platform of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft for new technology and application solutions in residential and commercial properties. Practical application laboratories for living, office, teleservice, hotel, events, hospital and nursing homes in the two research facilities inHaus1 (residential properties) and inHaus2 (commercial properties, being constructed at the moment) serve as interface to the market.
|
![[RDF Data]](/statics/sw-cube.png)
