Long-term Living Lab Studies and Participatory Design I

(Resp.: USI, Participants: All) This task refers to the setting of living labs connected to the user groups in the project in order to give further support to the establishment of Evidence-Based Practice in ICT design. The task will provide the socio-technical infrastructure to support end users in co-creation, exploration, experimentation and evaluation of innovative ideas, scenarios, concepts and related technological artifacts. The infrastructure as central entry point for the users will include a social collaboration platform that addresses two aims. It enables the user to provide profile information including personal profile, preconditions, risk factors, unhealthy behaviours, preferences, physical activity, sleep and mental status. Such information can be combined with the measured data and then be used to provide the user with the optimal health promotion and intervention. The platform also addresses the aim of a practise-based design by supporting users to exchange and collaborate. Access to the platform will be possible from different devices. The aim of the Living Labs is to keep users in the loop. These Living Labs will start during the project and continue until its end. In the project different phases, adaptation, integration and evaluation, are planned. In all of them it is crucial to test the systems in a real environment to: 1. explore complex problems which come up with everyday home use, 2. explore new use cases as opportunities for novel functionalities and 3. provide solutions for re-development of tested components. Main focus will be on accessibility, long time usability and high flexibility to address the broad range of end-users. Due to the all-encompassing set of devices these aspects the evaluation will take into account interaction mechanisms software and hardware. Further there will be user groups in different EU countries and abroad to compare the appropriation of the system and identify cultural differences and necessary adaption for wide acceptance.