The main roles of LivingLab-2

三種型態的LivingLabs

(1) Living Labs to experience and experiment with ubiquitous computing.

Living Labs for the studies of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) were established at a number of research organizations from the late nineties onwards. Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) describe Living Labs to investigate the impact of ubicomp on education(Abowd, 1999) and home environments (Kidd et al. ,1999).

(2) Living Labs as innovation platform.

A number of European Living Labs are presented as open innovation platforms, meaning that the Living Labs serves as a real-world environment for collaboration among stakeholders in the value chain of ICT production(Eriksson, 2006). Corelabs, a coordinating unit associated with the European Network of Living Labs, describes Living Labs as “functional regions” where stakeholders have formed a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) of firms, public agencies, universities, institutes and people, all collaborating for creation, prototyping, validating and testing of new services, products and systems in real-life contexts”(CoreLabs,2008)

(3) Living Labs exposing testbed applications to the users.

The term “testbed” is understood as a delimited environment to test software and services outside production environments.

This is an excerpt from the Eletronic Journal for Virtual Prganizations and networks(eJOV)-Volume 10, "Spacial Issue on Living Labs", August 2008.