Best practices Database for Living Labs - ALCOTRA - Innovation

3.1 The FormIT Process
The FormIT process can be seen as “a spiral in which the focus and shape of the design becomes clearer,
while the attention of the evaluation broadens from a focus on concepts and usability aspects to a holistic
view on the use of the system” [23].
Figure 5: The FormIT Process for Systems Development
In this process, three phases – Appreciate Needs/Opportunities, Design the Solution, and Evaluate Impact
(on e.g. usability, experience, etc.) – are repeated along three iterative cycles. The first is named Concept
Design, the second Prototype Design, and the third one Final System Design. The name of each cycle
indicates the expected output of it.
Besides these three cycles, two additional phases are included in the figure. The first is the Planning phase,
which can be seen on the very bottom of the picture, while the second is Commercialization, right on the
top. In each of these five phases, relevant analytical dimensions (with a same weight) are Business, Use and
Technology.
3.2 The C@R Workflow
The C@R - Collaboration at Rural - Integrated Project (http://www.c-rural.eu/) has been supported by the
European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, under the Information Society Technologies
(IST) Priority within the 6 th Framework Programme. When the project started in 2006, Living Labs as such
were not yet in place in the participant regions/countries. In this context, a “pragmatic phasing approach”
to Living Lab and trial development was introduced by [8], as follows:
The project is co-funded by the ERDF
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