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Deliverable 3.1 – abridged versi<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> other <strong>good</strong> <strong>practices</strong><br />
Alcotra Innovati<strong>on</strong> project:<br />
<strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong><br />
Definiti<strong>on</strong>, Harm<strong>on</strong>izati<strong>on</strong> Cube Indicators<br />
& Good Practices<br />
Author : Jens Schumacher<br />
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Table of c<strong>on</strong>tent<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab ................................................................................................................................................. 4<br />
Definiti<strong>on</strong>............................................................................................................................................. 4<br />
Descripti<strong>on</strong> .......................................................................................................................................... 5<br />
How it works........................................................................................................................................ 5<br />
Harm<strong>on</strong>isati<strong>on</strong> Cube Good Practices Criteria.......................................................................................... 7<br />
User Involvement ................................................................................................................................ 7<br />
Service Creati<strong>on</strong>................................................................................................................................... 8<br />
Infrastructure....................................................................................................................................... 8<br />
Organisati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> Governance............................................................................................................. 8<br />
Innovati<strong>on</strong> Outcomes .......................................................................................................................... 9<br />
Methods <strong>and</strong> Tools.............................................................................................................................. 9<br />
Supporting SME Innovati<strong>on</strong>............................................................................................................... 10<br />
Indicator Wrap-up ............................................................................................................................. 10<br />
Good Practice <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong>...................................................................................................................... 13<br />
Automotive transport <strong>and</strong> logistics reports .......................................................................................... 13<br />
Norm<strong>and</strong>y <strong>Living</strong> Lab (2005).............................................................................................................. 13<br />
ITL - <strong>Living</strong> Lab for Logistics (2003).................................................................................................... 13<br />
Slovenian automotive living lab (2007) ............................................................................................. 14<br />
The Swedish <strong>Living</strong> Lab <strong>on</strong> Vehicle <strong>and</strong> Transport ............................................................................ 15<br />
FIAPAL <strong>Living</strong> Lab (2003).................................................................................................................... 15<br />
Creative industries reports.................................................................................................................... 17<br />
The RECORD <strong>on</strong>line <strong>Living</strong> Lab (2007-2010) ...................................................................................... 17<br />
Creative Media Lab – INTELI (2006) .................................................................................................. 18<br />
Ecologies for learning in distributed project (2008).......................................................................... 18<br />
Scottish <strong>Living</strong> Lab (2007).................................................................................................................. 19<br />
Segovia Tech <strong>Living</strong> Lab (2007).......................................................................................................... 20<br />
Health Care Reports .............................................................................................................................. 21<br />
CEIT <strong>Living</strong> Lab Schwechat (2006) ..................................................................................................... 21<br />
Cyber Care Clinique (2007)................................................................................................................ 21<br />
Cyber Care Clinique (2007)................................................................................................................ 21<br />
Technologies for Rurality, Ageing <strong>and</strong> Indepen (2006) ..................................................................... 23<br />
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<strong>Living</strong> Lab for Teleassistance & Home............................................................................................... 23<br />
Intelligent Energy................................................................................................................................... 24<br />
Renewable Energies Friendly Community......................................................................................... 24<br />
ECO <strong>Living</strong>Lab@Chamusa (2005)....................................................................................................... 24<br />
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<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
There have been many definiti<strong>on</strong>s published about <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong>, as part of the different projects c<strong>on</strong>ducted in the<br />
European Framework Program 6 <strong>and</strong> 7 a definiti<strong>on</strong> of <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> has been produced which highlights the major<br />
points in all these definiti<strong>on</strong>, <strong>and</strong> was finally put up <strong>on</strong>to Wikipedia thus the following definiti<strong>on</strong> mainly relies <strong>on</strong> the<br />
definiti<strong>on</strong> of <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> as published <strong>on</strong> Wikipedia.<br />
Definiti<strong>on</strong><br />
A <strong>Living</strong> Lab is a research <strong>and</strong> innovati<strong>on</strong> c<strong>on</strong>cept. <strong>Living</strong> labs deal with user-centred, open innovati<strong>on</strong> ecosystem,<br />
often operating in a territorial or regi<strong>on</strong>al c<strong>on</strong>text (e.g. city, agglomerati<strong>on</strong>, regi<strong>on</strong>), integrating c<strong>on</strong>current research<br />
<strong>and</strong> innovati<strong>on</strong> processes within a citizen-public-private partnership (C3P).<br />
The c<strong>on</strong>cept is based <strong>on</strong> a systematic user-driven co-creati<strong>on</strong> approach integrating research <strong>and</strong> innovati<strong>on</strong> processes.<br />
These are integrated through the co-creati<strong>on</strong>, explorati<strong>on</strong>, experimentati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> evaluati<strong>on</strong> of innovative ideas,<br />
scenarios, c<strong>on</strong>cepts <strong>and</strong> related technological artifacts in real life use cases. Such use cases involve user communities,<br />
not <strong>on</strong>ly as observed subjects but also as a source of creati<strong>on</strong>. This approach allows all involved stakeholders to<br />
c<strong>on</strong>currently c<strong>on</strong>sider both the holistic performance of a product or service <strong>and</strong> its potential adopti<strong>on</strong> by users. This<br />
c<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong> may be made at the earlier stage of research <strong>and</strong> development <strong>and</strong> through all elements of the product<br />
life-cycle, from design up to recycling.<br />
User centred research methods such as acti<strong>on</strong> research, crowd sourcing, empathic design, participatory design <strong>and</strong><br />
other usability methods, already exist but fail to sufficiently empower users for co-creating into open development<br />
envir<strong>on</strong>ments through the whole product/service life cycle. The Web 2.0 developments have dem<strong>on</strong>strated the<br />
positive impact of involving user communities in new product development (NPD) such as crowd sourcing projects<br />
in collectively creating new c<strong>on</strong>tent <strong>and</strong> applicati<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
A living lab is not a test bed as its philosophy is to turn users, from being traditi<strong>on</strong>ally c<strong>on</strong>sidered as observed subjects<br />
for testing products/services against requirements, into value creati<strong>on</strong> in c<strong>on</strong>tributing to the co-creati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
explorati<strong>on</strong> of emerging ideas, breakthrough scenarios, innovative c<strong>on</strong>cepts <strong>and</strong> related artifacts. Hence, a <strong>Living</strong> lab<br />
rather c<strong>on</strong>stitutes an experiential envir<strong>on</strong>ment, which could be compared to the c<strong>on</strong>cept of experimental learning,<br />
where users are immersed in a creative social space for designing <strong>and</strong> experiencing their own future. <strong>Living</strong> labs are<br />
also used by policy makers <strong>and</strong> users/citizens for designing, exploring, experiencing <strong>and</strong> refining new policies <strong>and</strong><br />
regulati<strong>on</strong>s in real-life scenarios for evaluating their potential impacts before their implementati<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
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Descripti<strong>on</strong><br />
The term living lab has emerged in parallel from the ambient intelligence research communities c<strong>on</strong>text <strong>and</strong> from the<br />
discussi<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> experience <strong>and</strong> applicati<strong>on</strong> research (EAR).The emergence of the term is based <strong>on</strong> the c<strong>on</strong>cept of user<br />
experience <strong>and</strong> ambient intelligence (AmI).<br />
William Mitchell argued that a living lab represents a user-centric research methodology for sensing, prototyping, validating<br />
<strong>and</strong> refining complex soluti<strong>on</strong>s in multiple <strong>and</strong> evolving real life c<strong>on</strong>texts. Nowadays, several living lab descripti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>and</strong><br />
definiti<strong>on</strong>s are available from different sources.<br />
Recently Mitchell, al<strong>on</strong>g with Kent Lars<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> S<strong>and</strong>y Pentl<strong>and</strong>, formed the first US-based living labs research c<strong>on</strong>sortium.<br />
According to the c<strong>on</strong>sortium website:<br />
The c<strong>on</strong>vergence of globalizati<strong>on</strong>, changing demographics, <strong>and</strong> urbanizati<strong>on</strong> is transforming almost every aspect of our lives.<br />
We face new choices about where <strong>and</strong> how we work, live, travel, communicate, <strong>and</strong> maintain health. Ultimately, our<br />
societies are being transformed. MIT <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> brings together interdisciplinary experts to develop, deploy, <strong>and</strong> test - in<br />
actual living envir<strong>on</strong>ments - new technologies <strong>and</strong> strategies for design that resp<strong>on</strong>d to this changing world. Our work spans<br />
in scale from the pers<strong>on</strong>al to the urban, <strong>and</strong> addresses challenges related to health, energy, <strong>and</strong> creativity.<br />
However, the term "living lab" or "living laboratory" is also used for representing a residential home research facility where<br />
the behavior of people living in this house is observed <strong>and</strong> usage patterns are collected by researchers that are investigating<br />
methods for merging new technologies with user-centered design. In this type of living lab, users are more observed<br />
subjects than engaged in the co-creati<strong>on</strong> of ideas <strong>and</strong> breakthrough scenarios. There are examples of such research facilities<br />
like PlaceLab at MIT <strong>and</strong> ExperienceLab at Philips Research.<br />
How it works<br />
The living lab process, which integrates both user-centered research <strong>and</strong> open innovati<strong>on</strong>, is based <strong>on</strong> a maturity spiral<br />
c<strong>on</strong>currently involving a multidisciplinary team in the following four main activities:<br />
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Co-creati<strong>on</strong>: bring together technology push <strong>and</strong> applicati<strong>on</strong> pull (i.e. crowd sourcing, crowd casting) into a<br />
diversity of views, c<strong>on</strong>straints <strong>and</strong> knowledge sharing that sustains the ideati<strong>on</strong> of new scenarios, c<strong>on</strong>cepts <strong>and</strong> related<br />
artifacts.<br />
Explorati<strong>on</strong>: engage all stakeholders, especially user communities, at the earlier stage of the co-creati<strong>on</strong> process<br />
for discovering emerging scenarios, usages <strong>and</strong> behaviors through live scenarios in real or virtual envir<strong>on</strong>ments (e.g.<br />
virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality).<br />
Experimentati<strong>on</strong>: implement the proper level of technological artifacts to experience live scenarios with a large<br />
number of users while collecting data which will be analyzed in their c<strong>on</strong>text during the evaluati<strong>on</strong> activity.<br />
Evaluati<strong>on</strong>: assess new ideas <strong>and</strong> innovative c<strong>on</strong>cepts as well as related technological artefacts in real life situati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
through various dimensi<strong>on</strong>s such as socio-erg<strong>on</strong>omic, socio-cognitive <strong>and</strong> socio-ec<strong>on</strong>omic aspects; make observati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
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<strong>on</strong> the potentiality of a viral adopti<strong>on</strong> of new c<strong>on</strong>cepts <strong>and</strong> related technological artifacts through a c<strong>on</strong>fr<strong>on</strong>tati<strong>on</strong> with<br />
users' value models.<br />
Figure 1 <strong>Living</strong> Lab Definiti<strong>on</strong><br />
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Harm<strong>on</strong>izati<strong>on</strong> Cube Good Practices Criteria – <strong>Living</strong> Lab features<br />
The definiti<strong>on</strong> of <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> given beforeh<strong>and</strong> leads to the questi<strong>on</strong> how to implement <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> in a given c<strong>on</strong>text.<br />
The LEADERS approach (from Francesco Molinari) is a <strong>good</strong> starting point for this endeavor, however the results that<br />
will be implemented, from the applicati<strong>on</strong> of this approach, will differ drastically due to the fact that every <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong><br />
will have to take its local c<strong>on</strong>text into account <strong>and</strong> thus no two <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> will be the same. Thus the result of the<br />
<strong>good</strong> practice can usually not be used to define a clear Best practice ranking of LL. In order to help <strong>Living</strong> labs to assess<br />
their performance we have thus developed a framework to assess the different aspects that are most important for a<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab, providing a sort of quality framework. However while the defined indicators are in-line with the major goals<br />
of a <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong>, depending <strong>on</strong> the particular setting certain <strong>Living</strong> Lab will not be able to reach maximum points in<br />
every category. I.e. an automotive <strong>Living</strong> Lab that deals with the cooperati<strong>on</strong> for inbound logistics will have difficulties<br />
integrating the citizen/final end user. Thus the indicators described are in general better suited to characterize the<br />
specifics of a <strong>Living</strong> Lab in a particular sector than to judge up<strong>on</strong> the overall quality of a <strong>Living</strong> Lab <strong>and</strong> try to make a<br />
ranking out of it.<br />
As part of the Corelabs project (http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/CORELABS) a framework was developed to<br />
assess the performance of <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> according to the relevant dimensi<strong>on</strong>s <strong>and</strong> characteristics of living labs. Seven<br />
categories for analysis <strong>and</strong> evaluati<strong>on</strong> of the <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> were identified. These categories are derived from the<br />
“interoperability cube”, also known as “harm<strong>on</strong>izati<strong>on</strong> cube” developed within the CORELABS CA (EP# 035065) .<br />
“The harm<strong>on</strong>izati<strong>on</strong> cube not <strong>on</strong>ly represents the most important elements of a <strong>Living</strong> Lab, but also enables specifying<br />
bridges between existing <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong>, i.e., to learn from each other, benchmark the validati<strong>on</strong> of user behavior studies,<br />
exchange best <strong>practices</strong>, <strong>and</strong> interc<strong>on</strong>nect the <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong>. Next to facilitating a comm<strong>on</strong> ground for sharing, the cube<br />
model enables recognizing the degree of harm<strong>on</strong>izati<strong>on</strong> of used methods <strong>and</strong> tools in <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong>.” [4]<br />
Later <strong>on</strong> an additi<strong>on</strong>al indicator was added to identify the c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong> of living labs to SME-Innovati<strong>on</strong>. The<br />
categories are described below.<br />
Figure 2: Seven Categories / LL characteristics<br />
User Involvement<br />
User involvement is <strong>on</strong>e of the key elements of a <strong>Living</strong> Lab, <strong>and</strong> as such should be a focal point of mature<br />
<strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong>. In creating usable systems it is generally accepted that they should be designed according to<br />
an iterative approach, <strong>and</strong> that user involvement is crucial. The focus is <strong>on</strong> finding out what the relevant<br />
experiences, methods, tools that <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> benefit from are. Users are important to define c<strong>on</strong>text-aware<br />
services, think for example of cultural differences. Organizati<strong>on</strong>al issues include questi<strong>on</strong>s like How to<br />
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organize user involvement How to find the<br />
right users What about the<br />
validity How to motivate the users From a technological point of view: How to get access to large user<br />
groups How to analyze large amounts of data Analyzing social c<strong>on</strong>text data, applicati<strong>on</strong> usage data <strong>and</strong><br />
user experience data collected in real-life settings presents new challenges - it’s not clear a priori which<br />
data is relevant. Therefore, new analysis <strong>and</strong> reporting modules might be needed al<strong>on</strong>g with scalable,<br />
flexible storage <strong>and</strong> computing resources to cope with large amount.<br />
Service Creati<strong>on</strong><br />
Service creati<strong>on</strong> with relevance to the <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> describes the value added comp<strong>on</strong>ents that <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong><br />
can bring to innovati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> validati<strong>on</strong>. ‘Value-added’ implies we are ‘bringing <strong>some</strong>thing new <strong>and</strong> needed<br />
to the table’. Historically, the development of <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> has been stimulated by the cross-regi<strong>on</strong>al need to<br />
improve innovati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> competitiveness. Service creati<strong>on</strong> within the European Network of <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong><br />
(ENoLL), a community of internati<strong>on</strong>al <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> (http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/) should have pan-<br />
European relevance as opposed to that nati<strong>on</strong>al or regi<strong>on</strong>al relevance. The resultant objectives of such an<br />
envir<strong>on</strong>ment provide us with three underlying categories of required services [5]: services supporting<br />
collaborative innovati<strong>on</strong>, services supporting validati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> dem<strong>on</strong>strati<strong>on</strong>, <strong>and</strong> services specific to<br />
stakeholder requirements. On a more operati<strong>on</strong>al level of <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> <strong>and</strong> ENoLL, three types of horiz<strong>on</strong>tal<br />
services structure the service matrix: technical services – communicati<strong>on</strong>, collaborati<strong>on</strong>, dem<strong>on</strong>strati<strong>on</strong>,<br />
prototyping, validati<strong>on</strong>, product deployment etc., customer services – innovati<strong>on</strong>, idea generati<strong>on</strong>,<br />
community services, training, specific service needs, business support, market customizati<strong>on</strong>, <strong>and</strong> thirdly,<br />
intra-network services (within ENoLL) – governance, management <strong>and</strong> training.<br />
Infrastructure<br />
Within this c<strong>on</strong>text, a simple definiti<strong>on</strong> of infrastructure can be given as the basic facilities, services, <strong>and</strong><br />
installati<strong>on</strong>s, or underlying framework or features required for the operati<strong>on</strong> of a <strong>Living</strong> Lab. In order to<br />
harm<strong>on</strong>ize the infrastructures used <strong>and</strong>/or developed in the different <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong>, infrastructures can be<br />
categorized by their use during the entire life cycle of the <strong>Living</strong> Lab. The first set of criteria determines<br />
which infrastructures are chosen to be used at the establishment of the <strong>Living</strong> Lab. Infrastructures will be<br />
chosen depending <strong>on</strong> the envir<strong>on</strong>ment in which the <strong>Living</strong> Lab is to be deployed <strong>and</strong> the objectives which<br />
are to be achieved. The sec<strong>on</strong>d category includes criteria defining which infrastructures are c<strong>and</strong>idates to<br />
achieve the <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong>’ self-sustainability. The key <strong>on</strong>es in each <strong>Living</strong> Lab will be shared within the<br />
network. The third set of criteria will determine infrastructures are more apt to evolve <strong>and</strong> adapt than<br />
others. These are the <strong>on</strong>es that will be c<strong>on</strong>sidered with a higher level of scalability.<br />
The organizati<strong>on</strong>al perspective describes the infrastructures used in each <strong>Living</strong> Lab with the purpose of<br />
supporting the organizati<strong>on</strong> of the <strong>Living</strong> Lab. The c<strong>on</strong>textual perspective describes the infrastructures used<br />
in each <strong>Living</strong> Lab in the c<strong>on</strong>text of the <strong>Living</strong> Lab. Finally; the technological perspective describes the<br />
infrastructures used in each <strong>Living</strong> Lab as the technology backb<strong>on</strong>e of the <strong>Living</strong> Lab.<br />
Organisati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> Governance<br />
The governance structure of a <strong>Living</strong> Lab describes the way it is organized <strong>and</strong> managed at different<br />
levels such as the operati<strong>on</strong>al or strategic <strong>on</strong>es. The strategic level deals with issues like: the way<br />
Intellectual Property Rights <strong>and</strong> exploitati<strong>on</strong> of results are dealt with; the way stakeholders are involved<br />
(financial c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong>s, commitment, resp<strong>on</strong>sibility, influence), financing: public-private-partnership,<br />
commercial; ownership of the <strong>Living</strong> Lab, i.e. its services, infrastructure, <strong>and</strong> the resp<strong>on</strong>sible entity for<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab (dedicated organizati<strong>on</strong> or c<strong>on</strong>sortium); the management structure, e.g. director, steering board,<br />
(technical) program committee, user committee; driver <strong>and</strong> nature of the <strong>Living</strong> Lab, e.g. community-<br />
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driven, research driven, business/industry driven, technology driven,<br />
open/closeness: sharing resources/network; <strong>Living</strong> Lab development: c<strong>on</strong>sortium dynamics (e.g. additi<strong>on</strong>al<br />
partners, user groups), subsidy/funding policy <strong>and</strong> the definiti<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> adjustment of the agenda. The<br />
operati<strong>on</strong>al level includes aspects like: working <strong>practices</strong> for the day to day management; executi<strong>on</strong> &<br />
m<strong>on</strong>itoring of the living lab goals regarding the synergy, quality <strong>and</strong> progress m<strong>on</strong>itoring, internal<br />
communicati<strong>on</strong>; the way new software <strong>and</strong> services are introduced <strong>and</strong> validated, resp<strong>on</strong>sibilities <strong>and</strong><br />
liabilities; the definiti<strong>on</strong> of user group/ awareness of being part of <strong>Living</strong> Lab; disseminati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> external<br />
communicati<strong>on</strong>: nati<strong>on</strong>al <strong>and</strong> internati<strong>on</strong>al c<strong>on</strong>solidati<strong>on</strong>; the way projects are organized <strong>and</strong> funded.<br />
Innovati<strong>on</strong> Outcomes<br />
Per Erikss<strong>on</strong>, Director at the Swedish Agency for Innovati<strong>on</strong> systems stated ‘research is making knowledge<br />
out of m<strong>on</strong>ey – innovati<strong>on</strong> is making m<strong>on</strong>ey out of knowledge.’ This implies a relati<strong>on</strong> between research<br />
<strong>and</strong> innovati<strong>on</strong>. The problem is that the processes of research <strong>and</strong> innovati<strong>on</strong> d<strong>on</strong>’t simply appear<br />
automatically. Current research presents a view of a sociological perspective of innovati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> a change<br />
from a linear process — from research to innovati<strong>on</strong> — to a user centric approach where technological<br />
research <strong>and</strong> sociological aspects are equally addressed. Innovati<strong>on</strong> is the process by which new ideas are<br />
put into practice <strong>and</strong> can be seen as a learning/knowledge process within a community. Independent of<br />
innovati<strong>on</strong> type, a <strong>Living</strong> Lab needs to be set up from an organizati<strong>on</strong>al point of view to guarantee specific<br />
Innovati<strong>on</strong> Outcomes. One of the major factors is the involvement of qualified pers<strong>on</strong>nel to <str<strong>on</strong>g>guide</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>and</strong><br />
assist the innovati<strong>on</strong> process. Additi<strong>on</strong>ally, the <strong>Living</strong> Lab should be able to involve all necessary<br />
stakeholders in the innovati<strong>on</strong> chain, specifically in the area of user centricity <strong>and</strong> user knowledge.<br />
From a c<strong>on</strong>textual point of view, c<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong>s regarding <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong>’ strategic market positi<strong>on</strong> need to be<br />
taken into account. This can be <str<strong>on</strong>g>guide</str<strong>on</strong>g>d by the c<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong>, which is the target market for innovati<strong>on</strong><br />
outcomes – examples are creating value for industry, specific industry sectors, SMEs, society, etc. The<br />
degrees of flexibility the <strong>Living</strong> Lab can h<strong>and</strong>le with regards to these target markets also signify its<br />
scalability in this area. Technological systems, mainly ICT, need to be set up to facilitate the innovati<strong>on</strong><br />
processes. These necessarily support interacti<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> communicati<strong>on</strong>, which empower creativity. These<br />
technologies can range from simple c<strong>on</strong>ferencing tools via telepresence to virtual, game-like envir<strong>on</strong>ments.<br />
Virtual marketplaces can be employed for example for the brokerage of ideas <strong>and</strong> patents. Organizati<strong>on</strong>ally<br />
speaking, a suitable approach to IPR must be adopted to guarantee the financial sustainability of the <strong>Living</strong><br />
Lab’s innovati<strong>on</strong> outcomes.<br />
Methods <strong>and</strong> Tools<br />
Several surveys <strong>and</strong> analysis have shown that existing <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> are using a huge diversity of technologies,<br />
infrastructures <strong>and</strong> applicati<strong>on</strong>s <strong>and</strong> <strong>some</strong> host specialist technology providers <strong>and</strong> research institutes. Best<br />
Practices have been analyzed in order to ensure interoperability by either defining the use of de-facto<br />
st<strong>and</strong>ards or suggesting extensi<strong>on</strong>s to existing <strong>on</strong>es where applicable. The methods & tools category within<br />
the interoperability cube describes different methods <strong>and</strong> tools used within the existing European <strong>Living</strong><br />
Lab at all stages.<br />
Integrati<strong>on</strong> of the project in the <strong>Living</strong> Lab infrastructure: A full <strong>Living</strong> Lab service offering not <strong>on</strong>ly<br />
requires product <strong>and</strong> service development <strong>and</strong> evaluati<strong>on</strong> methodologies but also a mechanism for the<br />
integrati<strong>on</strong> of the customers’ product or service into a <strong>Living</strong> Lab to provide it to the users. The efficient,<br />
transparent <strong>and</strong> smooth integrati<strong>on</strong> accomplished by the <strong>Living</strong> Lab provider is the key for trust <strong>and</strong><br />
c<strong>on</strong>venience of the customer. It also can work as a first product/service testing depending <strong>on</strong> the level of<br />
development (market launch testing).<br />
Co-creati<strong>on</strong>: The core service of the <strong>Living</strong> Lab is to facilitate the co-creati<strong>on</strong> of a product, service or<br />
applicati<strong>on</strong> development. This co-creative product development process can be decomposed into four<br />
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phases: Product Idea, Product C<strong>on</strong>cept, Product<br />
Development, <strong>and</strong> Market Launch.<br />
For the four phases specific methods for user integrati<strong>on</strong> are assigned.<br />
Data preparati<strong>on</strong>: To fulfill the customers’ expectati<strong>on</strong>s regarding the results <strong>and</strong> to reduce the<br />
complexity of the evaluated data, the <strong>Living</strong> Lab provider offers a st<strong>and</strong>ardized data preparati<strong>on</strong>. The great<br />
advantage of the st<strong>and</strong>ardizati<strong>on</strong> is the comparability with the results of other <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong>. .<br />
Supporting SME Innovati<strong>on</strong><br />
SMEs are by far the most important category of companies. Within the European Uni<strong>on</strong> about 23 milli<strong>on</strong><br />
SMEs provide around 75 milli<strong>on</strong> jobs <strong>and</strong> represent 99% of all enterprises. Their role in the regi<strong>on</strong>al <strong>and</strong><br />
nati<strong>on</strong>al innovati<strong>on</strong> system as creators of new products, services <strong>and</strong> markets <strong>and</strong> partners for larger<br />
companies is really crucial. As globalizati<strong>on</strong> of markets <strong>and</strong> industries c<strong>on</strong>tinues, these innovati<strong>on</strong> systems<br />
become more <strong>and</strong> more open <strong>and</strong> cross-border. SMEs must be able to participate in internati<strong>on</strong>al value<br />
networks in order to survive. Networking capabilities <strong>and</strong> competencies to engage in open innovati<strong>on</strong><br />
therefore must be enhanced.<br />
There is a need to introduce new soluti<strong>on</strong>s enabling SMEs participati<strong>on</strong> into the innovati<strong>on</strong> process. The<br />
<strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> c<strong>on</strong>cept, based <strong>on</strong> ICT-based services <strong>and</strong> open innovati<strong>on</strong>, offers the new organizati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
dimensi<strong>on</strong>, processes, services <strong>and</strong> ICT-infrastructures to improve SME competitiveness <strong>and</strong> innovati<strong>on</strong><br />
potential <strong>and</strong> to enable SME to become protag<strong>on</strong>ist <strong>on</strong> the innovati<strong>on</strong> process, through partnership<br />
building am<strong>on</strong>g themselves <strong>and</strong> in collaborati<strong>on</strong> with supporting instituti<strong>on</strong>s, such as university research<br />
centers <strong>and</strong> regi<strong>on</strong>al development agencies.<br />
LIVING LABS: CAN WE SPEAK ABOUT BEST PRACTICES<br />
Indicator Wrap-up<br />
A best Practices Assessment was c<strong>on</strong>ducted for <strong>some</strong> of the <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> (organized in the European<br />
Network of <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong>) investigating the dimensi<strong>on</strong>s defined above as part of the CO-L<strong>Labs</strong> Project (further<br />
informati<strong>on</strong>s can be found <strong>on</strong> the website: http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/CO-LLABS) The goal was<br />
to provide benchmarks for other <strong>Living</strong> Lab in order to allow a self-positi<strong>on</strong>ing of <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> as part of a<br />
self-assessment. The Study should provide hints about the level of sustainability <strong>and</strong> to share <strong>good</strong><br />
<strong>practices</strong> within ENoLL. The results are available as spider-web diagrams as presented in Figure 3.<br />
Figure 3: spider-web diagram<br />
The thresholds are ranging from 0 – 100 for every category. The value 0 means that a <strong>Living</strong> Lab has nothing specific<br />
installed or deployed in this category whereas 50 means that <strong>some</strong> specific measures has been taken. The value 100 in<br />
this c<strong>on</strong>text means that all requirements are fulfilled <strong>and</strong> implemented. Based <strong>on</strong> these descripti<strong>on</strong>s the <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong><br />
can assess themselves accordingly from 0 up to 100. The descripti<strong>on</strong> of the indicators are presented below:<br />
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User Involvement<br />
Figure 4: User involvement<br />
Service creati<strong>on</strong><br />
Figure 5: Service Creati<strong>on</strong><br />
Infrastructure<br />
Figure 6: Infrastructure<br />
Organizati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> Governance<br />
Figure 7: Organizati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> Governance<br />
Innovati<strong>on</strong> Outcomes<br />
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Figure 8: Innovati<strong>on</strong> Outcomes<br />
Methods <strong>and</strong> Tools<br />
Figure 9: Methods <strong>and</strong> Tools<br />
SME Innovati<strong>on</strong> Support<br />
Figure 10: SME Innovati<strong>on</strong> Support<br />
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Good Practice <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong><br />
Alcotra Innovati<strong>on</strong> project has in the early stages identified 4 thematic areas that are of most interest to<br />
the regi<strong>on</strong>s involved in it. As such a survey was c<strong>on</strong>ducted in the LL Database to identify <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> in the<br />
same thematic area in order to allow the upcoming Alcotra <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong> to c<strong>on</strong>nect with these existing<br />
thematic <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Labs</strong>.<br />
Automotive transport <strong>and</strong> logistics reports<br />
Norm<strong>and</strong>y <strong>Living</strong> Lab (2005)<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
Norm<strong>and</strong>y <strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
APTES - 14 rue Alfred Kastler<br />
14000<br />
France<br />
Tel: 0033 231 536 330<br />
Fax: 0033 231 536 334<br />
Web: http://pole-tes.com<br />
Managing Director<br />
Daniel Lengr<strong>and</strong><br />
APTES - 14 rue Alfred Kastler<br />
14000<br />
France<br />
Tel: 0033 231 536 330<br />
Mobile: 0033 324 699 095<br />
Fax: 0033 231 536 334<br />
Email:magali.scelles@pole-tes.com<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Short</str<strong>on</strong>g> Descripti<strong>on</strong><br />
The Norm<strong>and</strong>y <strong>Living</strong> Lab encompasses the various phases involved before an innovative product can be<br />
made available <strong>on</strong> the market: societal observati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> study (usage, legislati<strong>on</strong>, ec<strong>on</strong>omics...), positive<br />
development of product c<strong>on</strong>cepts <strong>and</strong>, finally, life-size experimentati<strong>on</strong> of prototypes <strong>on</strong> large populati<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
Its field of activity covers e-secure transacti<strong>on</strong> technologies <strong>and</strong> usages, targeting both individuals (payment<br />
via mobile ph<strong>on</strong>es, NFC, computer ticketing...) <strong>and</strong> organisati<strong>on</strong>s (secure B2B exchange, public authorities<br />
etc.). Collaborative projects with other competitiveness clusters within the territory have provided an<br />
opportunity for other sectors to express an interest in such technology. Of course, industrial partners from<br />
other clusters will use NLL services or will c<strong>on</strong>tribute to the NLL's development, in particular through the<br />
provisi<strong>on</strong> of resources<br />
ITL - <strong>Living</strong> Lab for Logistics (2003)<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
ITL - <strong>Living</strong> Lab for Logistics<br />
Via Aldo Moro 38 - 40127 Bologna<br />
40127<br />
Italy<br />
Tel: 0039 051 283 831<br />
Fax: 0039 051 283 541<br />
Web: http://www.f<strong>on</strong>dazi<strong>on</strong>eitl.org<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
General Director<br />
Rino Rosini<br />
Via Aldo Moro 38 - 40127 Bologna<br />
40127<br />
Italy<br />
Tel: 0039 051 283 831<br />
Mobile: 0039 348 690 56 73<br />
Fax: 0039 051 283 541<br />
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Email: rrosini@regi<strong>on</strong>e.emilia-romagna.it<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Short</str<strong>on</strong>g> Descripti<strong>on</strong><br />
ITL was founded in 2003 by Emilia-Romagna Regi<strong>on</strong> as a n<strong>on</strong>-profit foundati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> as a supporting expert<br />
body to operate in the transport <strong>and</strong> logistics field. ITL main shareholders are Emilia-Romagna Regi<strong>on</strong> as<br />
well as Bologna, Piacenza <strong>and</strong> Ravenna Provinces <strong>and</strong> all the main regi<strong>on</strong>al universities. ITL has a triple<br />
missi<strong>on</strong>, of Research, Training <strong>and</strong> Professi<strong>on</strong>al Services, <strong>and</strong> plays a central role of coordinati<strong>on</strong>,<br />
disseminati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> combinati<strong>on</strong> of the resources already available in existing organisati<strong>on</strong>s in these three<br />
fields of activity. As such, the Institute does not <strong>on</strong>ly develop its own services in these activities, but it also<br />
brings the professi<strong>on</strong>al frame for the competent actors to perform these tasks. Manufacturing companies,<br />
logistic operators <strong>and</strong> public instituti<strong>on</strong>s benefit from the ITL.<br />
Slovenian automotive living lab (2007)<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
Slovenian automotive<br />
Dimičeva 9<br />
1000<br />
Slovenia<br />
Tel: 00386 123 617 35<br />
Fax: 00386 123 617 33<br />
Web: http://www.acs-giz.si<br />
Managing Director<br />
Dušan Bušen<br />
Dimičeva 9<br />
1000<br />
Slovenia<br />
Tel: 00386 123 617 32<br />
Mobile: 00386 313 798 33<br />
Fax: 00386 123 617 33<br />
Email: dusan.busen@acs-giz.si<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Short</str<strong>on</strong>g> Descripti<strong>on</strong><br />
The Slovenian Automotive <strong>Living</strong> Lab st<strong>and</strong>s for an integrati<strong>on</strong> of suppliers from different ec<strong>on</strong>omic fields,<br />
to get an integrated supply of systems <strong>and</strong> subassemblies. The automotive industry as a whole is inclined to<br />
the reducti<strong>on</strong> of number of suppliers <strong>and</strong> favours large system suppliers who are able to develop <strong>and</strong><br />
manufacture entire automobile assemblies or sub-assemblies, or even automobiles. In order to acquire the<br />
necessary resources for research activities, it is important that the synergetic effects of vertical <strong>and</strong><br />
horiz<strong>on</strong>tal integrati<strong>on</strong>s are fully utilized. The success of the Slovenian Automotive <strong>Living</strong> Lab is therefore<br />
str<strong>on</strong>gly c<strong>on</strong>nected with knowledge <strong>and</strong> competences management <strong>and</strong> integrati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
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The Swedish <strong>Living</strong> Lab <strong>on</strong> Vehicle <strong>and</strong> Transport<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
The Swedish <strong>Living</strong> L<br />
Hörselgången 4<br />
41756<br />
Sweden<br />
Fax: 0046 317 728 963<br />
Web:http://www.vikoria.se<br />
Professor <strong>and</strong> Research Program Manager<br />
Ola Henfridss<strong>on</strong><br />
Hörselgången 4<br />
41756<br />
Sweden<br />
Tel: 0046 703 779 729<br />
Mobile: 0046 703 779 729<br />
Fax: 0046 317 728 963<br />
Email: ola.henfridss<strong>on</strong>@viktoria.se<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Short</str<strong>on</strong>g> Descripti<strong>on</strong><br />
The Swedish <strong>Living</strong> Lab <strong>on</strong> Vehicle <strong>and</strong> Transport ICT is a competitive living lab for user-driven development<br />
of automotive <strong>and</strong> transport applicati<strong>on</strong>s <strong>and</strong> services. The objective is to leverage Sweden’s str<strong>on</strong>g cluster<br />
of automotive <strong>and</strong> transport firms through the development, adopti<strong>on</strong>, <strong>and</strong> use of co-creati<strong>on</strong> approaches<br />
to product <strong>and</strong> service innovati<strong>on</strong>. The Swedish vehicle <strong>and</strong> transport innovati<strong>on</strong> system currently c<strong>on</strong>sists<br />
of a mix of business, research, <strong>and</strong> governmental partners. The role of the SVT-LL is to further enhance the<br />
capacity of the cluster to incorporate processes, methods, <strong>and</strong> tools for user involvement in the<br />
development of new applicati<strong>on</strong>s <strong>and</strong> services. The ambiti<strong>on</strong> with the <strong>Living</strong> Lab is to build a str<strong>on</strong>g basis<br />
for knowledge sharing between its members, devised to implement user <strong>and</strong> open innovati<strong>on</strong> processes.<br />
FIAPAL <strong>Living</strong> Lab (2003)<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
Camino de Vera, SN 8G Building, Access B, 3 f<br />
2950-402<br />
PORTUGAL<br />
Tel: 00351 212 389 128<br />
Fax: 00351 212 389 129<br />
Web: http://www.fiapal.com<br />
Sr. António Pombinho<br />
Largo do Municipio<br />
2951-505<br />
PORTUGAL<br />
Tel: 00351 212 336 654<br />
Mobile: 00351 935 321 037<br />
Fax: 00351 212 336 659<br />
Email: apombinho@cm-palmela.pt,<br />
ana.sarmento@fiabal.com<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Short</str<strong>on</strong>g> Descripti<strong>on</strong><br />
FIAPAL LL has been evolving naturally from the creati<strong>on</strong> of an automotive cluster in the early 90’s to <strong>on</strong>e of<br />
the major export industries in Portugal. We have developed a co-creative envir<strong>on</strong>ment where research,<br />
engineering <strong>and</strong> manufacturing partners get together to add increased value to the products <strong>and</strong> services<br />
that they create <strong>and</strong> supply to the industry. FIAPAL LL is the facilitator of this co-creative innovative<br />
envir<strong>on</strong>ment providing supporting services <strong>and</strong> enabling the best <strong>practices</strong> that allowed the level of<br />
enterprise collaborati<strong>on</strong> to increase all the time up to the level of creating <strong>and</strong> developing together<br />
complex product comp<strong>on</strong>ents <strong>and</strong> assemblies based <strong>on</strong> different materials <strong>and</strong> technologies which would<br />
be otherwise not possible. FIAPAL was created in 2003 as an Associati<strong>on</strong> of Ec<strong>on</strong>omic Development that<br />
brings together public <strong>and</strong> private entities, as well as enterprises mainly SMEs. FIAPAL LL c<strong>on</strong>tributes to the<br />
sustainable development of the regi<strong>on</strong> by reinforcing its competitiveness through the practice of user<br />
driven collaborative innovati<strong>on</strong> leading to the excellence of the automotive sector. Diversificati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
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internati<strong>on</strong>alizati<strong>on</strong> together with effective<br />
coordinati<strong>on</strong> with the Nati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
system of Innovati<strong>on</strong>, Research, Educati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> Training has achieved the critical mass <strong>and</strong> knowledge basis<br />
for global competitiveness.<br />
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Creative industries reports<br />
The RECORD <strong>on</strong>line <strong>Living</strong> Lab (2007-2010)<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
The RECORD <strong>on</strong>line Li<br />
PB 124<br />
0314<br />
Norway<br />
Tel: 0047 220 673 00<br />
Fax:0047 220 673 50<br />
Web: http://www.recordproject.org<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
Managing Director<br />
Ola Gaute Aas Askheim<br />
c/o Opini<strong>on</strong> AS, Holtegaten 26<br />
0355<br />
Norway<br />
Tel: 0047 213 004 00<br />
Mobile: 0047 922 340 56<br />
Fax: 0047 213 004 44<br />
Email: olag@opini<strong>on</strong>.no<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Short</str<strong>on</strong>g> Descripti<strong>on</strong><br />
The RECORD <strong>Living</strong> Lab aims at improving user research, design-feedback, <strong>and</strong> co-creati<strong>on</strong> in ICT innovati<strong>on</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> development. In particular, the goal of the <strong>Living</strong> Lab is to improve the ability of Norwegian service <strong>and</strong><br />
technology providers’ to develop <strong>on</strong>line community soluti<strong>on</strong>s. The development of the <strong>Living</strong> Lab shall be<br />
c<strong>on</strong>ducted in a manner that moves the boundaries of the state-of-the-art for user-cantered development,<br />
through the development of new knowledge, new design soluti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>and</strong> new methods <strong>and</strong> processes. The<br />
primary target of the <strong>Living</strong> Lab is user research <strong>and</strong> early-phase design feedback <strong>and</strong> co-creati<strong>on</strong> for web<br />
<strong>and</strong> mobile soluti<strong>on</strong>s, in particular within the service areas of <strong>on</strong>line communities <strong>and</strong> rich media. The core<br />
RECORD <strong>Living</strong> Lab infrastructure is the user panel <strong>and</strong> <strong>on</strong>line envir<strong>on</strong>ment.<br />
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Creative Media Lab – INTELI (2006)<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
Creative Media Lab<br />
Av. C<strong>on</strong>selheiro Fern<strong>and</strong>o de Sousa, nº 11, 12º<br />
1070-072<br />
Portugal<br />
Tel: 00351 711 22 10<br />
Fax: 00351 711 22 20<br />
Web: http://www.inteli.pt<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
Catarina Selada<br />
Studies <strong>and</strong> Projects Coordinator<br />
Av. C<strong>on</strong>selheiro Fern<strong>and</strong>o de Sousa, nº 11, 12º<br />
1070-072<br />
Portugal<br />
Tel: 00351 21 711 22 10<br />
Mobile: 00351 918 215 262<br />
Fax: 00351 21 711 22 20<br />
Email: catarina.s@inteli.pt<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Short</str<strong>on</strong>g> Descripti<strong>on</strong><br />
The “Creative Media Lab” is an open innovative <strong>and</strong> creative envir<strong>on</strong>ment with the objective of the<br />
c<strong>on</strong>cepti<strong>on</strong>, development, validati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> testing of innovative services/products <strong>and</strong> applicati<strong>on</strong>s/soluti<strong>on</strong>s<br />
in the area of digital media, namely digital journalism <strong>and</strong> participatory media, c<strong>on</strong>sidering the citizens<br />
(readers) as lead users in a real-life c<strong>on</strong>text of an university, a neighbourhood, a city or a regi<strong>on</strong>. The<br />
missi<strong>on</strong> has been defined, in a preliminary basis, <strong>on</strong> the following way: “Co-create, develop, produce <strong>and</strong><br />
validate/test creative soluti<strong>on</strong>s in the area of digital media (c<strong>on</strong>tents <strong>and</strong> tools/platforms) to promote the<br />
reciprocal interacti<strong>on</strong> between media <strong>and</strong> citizens in an open innovati<strong>on</strong> envir<strong>on</strong>ment”.<br />
Ecologies for learning in distributed project (2008)<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
Ecologies for learni<br />
Steinackerstraße 5<br />
5210<br />
Switzerl<strong>and</strong><br />
Tel: 0041 564 624 150<br />
Fax: 0041 564 624 151<br />
Web: http://www.fhnw.ch<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
Charles Huber<br />
Steinackerstraße 5<br />
5210<br />
Switzerl<strong>and</strong><br />
Tel: 0041 564 624 150<br />
Fax: 0041 564 624 151<br />
Email: charles.huber@fhnw.ch<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Short</str<strong>on</strong>g> Descripti<strong>on</strong><br />
The main goal of the Swiss <strong>Living</strong> Lab Community is the creati<strong>on</strong>, evaluati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> c<strong>on</strong>tinuous improvement<br />
of new products <strong>and</strong> services specifically designed to enhance the productivity of distributed project teams<br />
that have a str<strong>on</strong>g learning focus within their m<strong>and</strong>ate. The strategy is to c<strong>on</strong>tinuously support <strong>and</strong><br />
facilitate community building <strong>and</strong> comm<strong>on</strong> initiatives between all relevant actors in Switzerl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
thereby enhancing the innovative capacity not <strong>on</strong>ly of single actors but of the whole country to meet the<br />
challenges to innovati<strong>on</strong> learning of the knowledge age. The SLLC focuses <strong>on</strong> systematically bringing<br />
together relevant actors, methods, tools, <strong>and</strong> materials from different fields to foster learning <strong>and</strong> its basic<br />
processes -knowledge transformati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> creati<strong>on</strong>- across the traditi<strong>on</strong>al boarders of research,<br />
development, educati<strong>on</strong>, training, c<strong>on</strong>sulting, etc. Communicati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> collaborati<strong>on</strong> processes are<br />
therefore seen as core processes within the <strong>Living</strong> Lab.<br />
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Scottish <strong>Living</strong> Lab (2007)<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
Scottish <strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
RCSS, Old Surge<strong>on</strong>s Hall, High School Yards, E<br />
EH1 1LZ<br />
United Kingdom<br />
Tel: 0044 131 650 63 92<br />
Web: http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/research/sll<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
Dr. James Stewart<br />
RCSS, Old Surge<strong>on</strong>s Hall, High School Yards, E<br />
EH1 1LZ<br />
United Kingdom<br />
Tel: 0044 131 650 63 92<br />
Fax: 0044 131 650 63 99<br />
Email: j.k.stewart@ed.ac.uk<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Short</str<strong>on</strong>g> Descripti<strong>on</strong><br />
The missi<strong>on</strong> of the Scottish <strong>Living</strong> Lab is to develop an open collaborati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> infrastructure to evaluate<br />
<strong>and</strong> develop new technologies <strong>and</strong> services based <strong>on</strong> user co-creati<strong>on</strong> methodologies. The lab will engage a<br />
broad c<strong>on</strong>stituency of user stakeholders in innovati<strong>on</strong>, breaking down traditi<strong>on</strong>al linear models of<br />
inventi<strong>on</strong>, testing <strong>and</strong> commercialisati<strong>on</strong>. The SLL will enable a range of commercial <strong>and</strong> research<br />
organisati<strong>on</strong>s to develop <strong>and</strong> test c<strong>on</strong>cepts, services, applicati<strong>on</strong>s <strong>and</strong> products based <strong>on</strong> ubiquitous mobile<br />
<strong>and</strong> wireless technologies. It will draw <strong>on</strong> the wide range of complementary expertise in social research,<br />
innovati<strong>on</strong> studies, user testing <strong>and</strong> user-centred design of the University partners, <strong>and</strong> the business<br />
expertise <strong>and</strong> facilities of commercial partners. The SLL will develop a multi-centre model of expertise in<br />
creating a <strong>Living</strong> Lab facility across Scotl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
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Segovia Tech <strong>Living</strong> Lab (2007)<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
Plaza Mayor 1, Segovia<br />
40001<br />
SPAIN<br />
Tel: 0034 921 412 798<br />
Fax: 0034 921 412 706<br />
Web: http://www.caytec.es<br />
Agustin López<br />
Managing Director<br />
Plaza Mayor 1, Segovia<br />
40001<br />
SPAIN<br />
Tel: 0034 921 412 798<br />
Mobile: 0034 608 800 057<br />
Fax: 0034 921 412 706<br />
Email: lopez@caytec.es<br />
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Segovia Tech <strong>Living</strong> Lab is leaded by ”Círculo de las Artes y la Tecnología”/Center of Arts <strong>and</strong> Technology<br />
(CAT). CAT supports public <strong>and</strong> private organisati<strong>on</strong>s to deliver their best through innovati<strong>on</strong>, emerging<br />
industries <strong>and</strong> new technologies. The program includes exhibiti<strong>on</strong>, meeting <strong>and</strong> educati<strong>on</strong> spaces around<br />
the c<strong>on</strong>cepts of humanities <strong>and</strong> technology. CAT is involved <strong>on</strong> Techmedia (Communicati<strong>on</strong>s Technologies<br />
<strong>and</strong> Digital Media) industry. Based <strong>on</strong> characteristics of Segovia as World Heritage Site according to the<br />
World Heritage of Unesco our LL is focused <strong>on</strong> Art <strong>and</strong> Technology topics both together, c<strong>on</strong>sidering social<br />
objectives, ec<strong>on</strong>omic objectives, <strong>and</strong> educati<strong>on</strong>al objectives. Our projects <strong>and</strong> activities comprise creati<strong>on</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> promoti<strong>on</strong> of digital c<strong>on</strong>tents, training, observatories <strong>and</strong> open source tools developments regarding<br />
areas of interest like 3D virtual platforms, animati<strong>on</strong>, video games, simulati<strong>on</strong> envir<strong>on</strong>ments, arts, e-<br />
learning, interactive/transacti<strong>on</strong>al TV, new tourism soluti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>and</strong> mobile platform soluti<strong>on</strong>s. Energy<br />
efficiency projects like Green Data Center best <strong>practices</strong> are also in our commitments.<br />
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Health Care Reports<br />
CEIT <strong>Living</strong> Lab Schwechat (2006)<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
Am C<strong>on</strong>corde Park 2, Gebäude F<br />
Schwechat<br />
AUSTRIA<br />
Tel: 0043 190 360 12<br />
Fax: 0043 190 360 12 99<br />
Web: http://www.ceit.at<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
Prof. Günter Koch<br />
Am C<strong>on</strong>corde Park 2, Gebäude F,<br />
Kirchhasse 13/<br />
2320, 1070<br />
AUSTRIA<br />
Tel: 0043 190 360 12 02<br />
Email: g.koch@ceit.at<br />
CEIT Strategic Advisor<br />
Robert Scheidl<br />
Am C<strong>on</strong>corde Park 2, Gebäude F,<br />
Kirchhasse 13/<br />
2320, 1070<br />
AUSTRIA<br />
Tel: 0043 152 644 68<br />
Email: r.scheidl@defrag.at<br />
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<strong>Living</strong>Lab Schwechat is part of Schwechat’s Informati<strong>on</strong> Society Initiative eSchwechat.at. It focusses <strong>on</strong><br />
rehabilitati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> Ambient Assisted <strong>Living</strong> technologies as well as <strong>on</strong> modern urban <strong>and</strong> regi<strong>on</strong>al planning<br />
technologies. It’s open both to companies <strong>and</strong> research institutes. Schwechat’s municipal facilities<br />
represent a perfect c<strong>on</strong>text for trying out ICT developments. The small town structure, manageable<br />
populati<strong>on</strong> numbers <strong>and</strong> short distance to the municipality administrati<strong>on</strong> enable an effective envir<strong>on</strong>ment<br />
for user centric product development. The Municipality’s commitment to deploy <strong>and</strong> dem<strong>on</strong>strate new<br />
technologies provides a <strong>good</strong> basis for a sustainable <strong>Living</strong>Lab. <strong>Living</strong>Lab Schwechat’s major stakeholders<br />
are the Municipality of Schwechat, CEIT Central European Institute of Technology, CEIT ALANOVA, CEIT<br />
RALTEC, Innovati<strong>on</strong> C<strong>on</strong>sultancy (managing the <strong>Living</strong>Lab Schwechat) <strong>and</strong> their business partners.<br />
Cyber Care Clinique (2007)<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
I, Birkenmatt<br />
6343<br />
Switzerl<strong>and</strong><br />
Tel: 0041 417 906 312<br />
Fax: 0041 417 906 313<br />
Web: http://www.prolog-rtd.com<br />
Tibor Toth<br />
Resp<strong>on</strong>sible for ICT Infrastructure <strong>and</strong> Service<br />
I, Birkenmatt<br />
6343<br />
Switzerl<strong>and</strong><br />
Tel: 0041 417 906 312<br />
Mobile: 0036 304 645 579<br />
Fax: 0041 417 906 313<br />
Email: prolog-rtdi@gmx.ch,t-toth@gmx.ch<br />
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The swiss Cyber Care <strong>Living</strong> Lab (CCLL) aims to offer a novel virtual -reality-based healthcare system for<br />
integrated clinical <strong>and</strong> in-home services. It offers a viable <strong>and</strong> sustainable approach to addressing the<br />
complex needs of caring for people not <strong>on</strong>ly while they are being treated in a hospital, but follow them to<br />
their homes as well. As such it is str<strong>on</strong>gly related to the EU’s Ambient Assisted <strong>Living</strong> (AAL) initiative.<br />
Cyber Care Clinique (2007)<br />
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<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
I, Birkenmatt<br />
6343<br />
Switzerl<strong>and</strong><br />
Tel: 0041 417 906 312<br />
Fax: 0041 417 906 313<br />
Web: http://www.prolog-rtd.com<br />
Tibor Toth<br />
Resp<strong>on</strong>sible for ICT Infrastructure <strong>and</strong> Service<br />
I, Birkenmatt<br />
6343<br />
Switzerl<strong>and</strong><br />
Tel: 0041 417 906 312<br />
Mobile: 0036 304 645 579<br />
Fax: 0041 417 906 313<br />
Email: prolog-rtdi@gmx.ch,t-toth@gmx.ch<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Short</str<strong>on</strong>g> Descripti<strong>on</strong><br />
The swiss Cyber Care <strong>Living</strong> Lab (CCLL) aims to offer a novel virtual -reality-based healthcare system for<br />
integrated clinical <strong>and</strong> in-home services. It offers a viable <strong>and</strong> sustainable approach to addressing the<br />
complex needs of caring for people not <strong>on</strong>ly while they are being treated in a hospital, but follow them to<br />
their homes as well. As such it is str<strong>on</strong>gly related to the EU’s Ambient Assisted <strong>Living</strong> (AAL) initiative.<br />
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Technologies for Rurality, Ageing <strong>and</strong> Indepen (2006)<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
Technologies for Rurality, Ageing <strong>and</strong><br />
Indepen (TRAIL)<br />
Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim<br />
BT37 OQB<br />
UNITED KINGDOM<br />
Tel: 0044 289 036 86 02<br />
Web: http://www.ulster.ac.uk<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
Mr Maurice Mulvenna<br />
School of Computing <strong>and</strong> Mathematics, Faculty<br />
BT37 OQB<br />
UNITED KINGDOM<br />
Tel: 0044 289 036 86 02<br />
Mobile: 0044 798 057 51 83<br />
Email: md.mulvenna@ulster.ac.uk<br />
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The missi<strong>on</strong> of Technologies for Rurality, Ageing <strong>and</strong> Indepen <strong>Living</strong> Lab (TRAIL) is to study the unmet needs<br />
of ageing citizens in rural locati<strong>on</strong>s in the regi<strong>on</strong> of the North of Irel<strong>and</strong>. The objective of TRAIL is to c<strong>on</strong>duct<br />
community-facilitated <strong>and</strong> user-driven methodologies that create service <strong>and</strong> product innovati<strong>on</strong>s that will<br />
enable rural <strong>and</strong> age-impaired citizens to live independently in the heart of their communities. TRAIL will<br />
develop pilot products <strong>and</strong> services for this sector of the community, with the added benefit of validating<br />
<strong>and</strong> fine-tuning the innovati<strong>on</strong> methods. The emerging TRAIL model is different to its predecessors, such as<br />
science parks <strong>and</strong> incubators, in that, it supports a community-facilitated end user-focused innovati<strong>on</strong> that<br />
takes place in real-life c<strong>on</strong>texts, rather than in a traditi<strong>on</strong>al lab or incubator.<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab for Teleassistance & Home<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
Emilio Vargas 6<br />
28043<br />
SPAIN<br />
Tel: 0034 913 374 009<br />
Web: http://www.tid.es<br />
Luis Pablo Del Arbol Pérez<br />
eHealth Project Manager<br />
C/ Recogidas 24, Portal B, Escalera A, 1º A-D<br />
18002<br />
SPAIN<br />
Tel: 0034 958 537 868<br />
Mobile: 0034 659 024 644<br />
Email: lpap@tid.es<br />
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Telefónica I+D Granada have created a <strong>Living</strong> Lab to test the services <strong>and</strong> technologies involved in the<br />
teleassistance platform c<strong>on</strong>cept. For this, several homes have already been equipped with different kind of<br />
technology, <strong>and</strong> several more are planned to join the network. This allows the development teams to test<br />
their services as well as to check <strong>and</strong> validate the integrati<strong>on</strong> work that it’s been d<strong>on</strong>e.<br />
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Intelligent Energy<br />
Renewable Energies Friendly Community<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
RENER<br />
Av. C<strong>on</strong>selheiro Fern<strong>and</strong>o de Sousa, 11, 12º<br />
1070-072<br />
Portugal<br />
Tel: 00351 217 112 210<br />
Fax: 00351 217 112 220<br />
Web: http://www.inteli.pt<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
Eng. José Felizardo<br />
Av. C<strong>on</strong>selheiro Fern<strong>and</strong>o de Sousa, 11, 12º<br />
1070-072<br />
Portugal<br />
Tel: 00351 217 112 210<br />
Fax: 00351 127 112 220<br />
Email: mpinto@inteli.pt<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Short</str<strong>on</strong>g> Descripti<strong>on</strong><br />
RENER <strong>Living</strong> Lab missi<strong>on</strong> is to induce the appropriate c<strong>on</strong>text, in the local community, to allow the<br />
research <strong>and</strong> development, the test <strong>and</strong> the implementati<strong>on</strong> of new renewable energy technologies <strong>and</strong><br />
soluti<strong>on</strong>s. This project will address both small scale energy producti<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> wave energy technologies. To<br />
achieve its missi<strong>on</strong>, RENER LL will address the issue of the appropriati<strong>on</strong> of part of the ec<strong>on</strong>omic benefits by<br />
the local community. RENER LL functi<strong>on</strong> is to act both as a test bed <strong>and</strong> a demo site for renewable energy<br />
technologies <strong>and</strong> soluti<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
ECO <strong>Living</strong>Lab@Chamusa (2005)<br />
<strong>Living</strong> Lab<br />
C<strong>on</strong>tact Pers<strong>on</strong><br />
Rua Direita de S. Pedro<br />
2140-098<br />
PORTUGAL<br />
Tel: 0035 124 976 91 00<br />
Fax: 0035 124 976 02 11<br />
Web: http://www.cm-chamusa.pt<br />
Dr. João Rodrigues<br />
Rua Anselmo de Andrade n.º 53<br />
2140-081<br />
PORTUGAL<br />
Tel: 00351 249 76 93 00<br />
Mobile: 00351 967 23 95 84<br />
Fax: 00351 249 769 309<br />
Email: cm-chamusca@sapo.pt<br />
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The c<strong>on</strong>cept of a <strong>Living</strong> Lab is very much in relati<strong>on</strong> to the work being developed at the Eco Industrial Park<br />
(EIP). The Industrial Symbiosis Network at Chamusca’s Eco Industrial Park supplies innovative <strong>good</strong>s <strong>and</strong><br />
services, in accordance to the paradigm of Industrial Ecology, through the development of innovative<br />
businesses, creating jobs while safeguarding the areaecological equilibrium. The first phase of the EIP<br />
development is targeting mainly recyclers <strong>and</strong> logistics providers, in order to establish the critical base for<br />
attracting other industries. The main focuses are <strong>on</strong> recycle <strong>and</strong> energy reclamati<strong>on</strong>. The services offered<br />
by the <strong>Living</strong> Lab are focused <strong>on</strong> R&D in recycling technologies, IS facilitati<strong>on</strong>, certificati<strong>on</strong> provider (e.g. ISO<br />
<strong>and</strong> EIP certificati<strong>on</strong>), m<strong>on</strong>itoring, data base collecti<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> h<strong>and</strong>ling, business start-up services,<br />
envir<strong>on</strong>mental educati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> training <strong>and</strong> centralized logistics. The <strong>Living</strong> Lab assumes the role of the<br />
“umbrella” for the articulati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> integrati<strong>on</strong> of all the services <strong>and</strong> tools to be developed.<br />
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