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Figure 6: The C@R Workflow for Living Labs and Trial Establishment In short, the proposed workflow rolls out along four consecutive stages: • Preparation: setting in place the preconditions for successful establishment of the Living Lab, such as the commitment of local stakeholders and the compliance with development and/or innovation policies. Key activities here are joint vision and user community building, discussion of current and prospective collaboration opportunities, definition of innovative scenarios and use cases, analysis of requirements and definition of prospective services; • Limited scale experimentation: demonstrating the effect of user integration on work and business practice is necessary to convince the skeptics or disseminate innovation to followers. New ideas, concepts and mock-up’s generated at this stage can serve as “proofs of principle” to create an initial user community. Here, suitable technologies and applications are selected or integrated and can also be developed in small experimental series where found appropriate, to start sharing critical information with initial users and testing innovations at technical, social and business level; • Extensive application development and field experimentation: in this later stage of the Living Lab’s workflow, prototype solutions and tools are made available in full scale for user driven validation and testing in real life conditions. To this end, the first field trials are prepared and initiated, based on a number of operational methodologies, including training of early adopters and demonstration of capabilities. • User-led cocreation and Business model operation: here the conditions are set for extending the field trials to a full user experience as well as experimenting on new ways of collaboration with and between end users. Thus, co-creation of innovative applications is the end result, not the premise of Living Lab’s establishment. Additionally to that, impact evaluation of innovations on business processes, ways of living and development models can be launched. At this stage there is a more extensive user community willing to actively be involved. A business model governing the operation of the Living lab as innovation environment is also in place. A similar implementation workflow, as proposed by [24], is depicted below. We use different colors to identify the activities belonging to each of the three layers of our conceptual architecture described in Section 2 (see also Figure 1 above). The project is co-funded by the ERDF Page 16 of 78
Figure 7: Sample Living Lab’s trial implementation workflow (from: [24]) After the institutional definition of the PPP, an initial phase of brainstorming with local stakeholders is realized, aimed at making them aware of the goals and features of the prospective solution concept. As a result of this first activity, several key aspects of the preliminary usage scenario(s) envisaged for the prototype may be confirmed, refined or radically changed. Then follows the initial development of the technical architecture (only at mock-up level in this stage) and its validation with the end users in order to get additional feedback from the illustration of the related usage potential. A notable remark is that up to this moment, only the PPP stakeholders have been involved in the group discussion and no single code line has been written as yet. The next activity is the actual development and installation of the specific application on real devices, in order to carry out the ‘live’ demonstrations of its main features as required. Some training sessions may also be needed in order to support technology deployment in this phase. A number of real working sessions are recorded, and several concrete suggestions for improving usability as well as functionality of the system are collected. Bugs fixing and the provision of requested improvements (with or without a new battery of field tests for further refining the architectural and structural aspects) ultimately leads to the final prototype. 3.3 The IBBT Research Cycle One of the earliest examples of Living Labs as testing and experimentation platforms for technologies and services in early stages of the innovation process comes from IBBT, the leading Belgian Institute of Applied Technologies [25]. In this perspective, the basic research cycle is based on four consecutive (and iterative) steps: The project is co-funded by the ERDF Page 17 of 78
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