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Living Labs

Living Labs. or: Testbeds Field test/prototyping environments Extra Large (XL) Prototypes …. Esko Kurvinen & Antti Oulasvirta User Experience Research Group. Paradigm shift?. Mobility Connect from anyplace to anyplace For example the mobile internet Ubiquity

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Living Labs

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  1. Living Labs or: Testbeds Field test/prototyping environmentsExtra Large (XL) Prototypes … Esko Kurvinen & Antti Oulasvirta User Experience Research Group

  2. Paradigm shift? • Mobility • Connect from anyplace to anyplace • For example the mobile internet • Ubiquity • Connect from here to near • For example local SMS push ads

  3. There are plenty of ideas to out there… InfoRadar CONTEXT MobShare Oma Saitti

  4. …but the means for testing the ideas are limited • restricted to small spatial scale • entails low number of users • involves few stakeholders • spans a short period of time • ignores the interplay of several interoperable technologies • …

  5. The eSomeplacetown project • Bring technology into the urban space • WLAN, Bluetooth connectivity etc… • Invite companies in that area to participate • build services… study them perhaps… • 2 out of 10 companies participate (=good!) • What about the remaining 8? • Why were they not interested? • What about those who we did not ask? • residents, non-profit organizations, service-sector, children, skateboarders, tourists, people passing by…

  6. Place matters! 1m 1 Pine1 Rabbit50 Types of plants1000 Spiders500 InsectsStonesSandClay… 1m

  7. Place matters • Koskinen 2001. kulttuurikorttelit: Itäinen Kamppi ja Pohjoinen Punavuori kaupallisen kulttuurin ja luovien ammattien keskittymänä. Yhteiskuntasuunnittelu Vol. 39, 2001:2, s. 9-28

  8. Antiques, design & art • Performing arts • Advertising agencies & publishers • Architects, interior architects & industrial designers • New media companies • …

  9. Services and applications • Not only commercial transactions • Prototyping and field studies • Technological infrastructure • Connectivity etc • Engineering The XL-Living-Laboratory-Testbed • Content database • Inventory & understanding of what exists in the area • Ethnographic foundation

  10. It enables • Making informed interventions • Making interventions smoothly • Sustaining co-development • Investigating the co-evolution of technology and human activities • Longitudinal studies • Beyond the novelty factor • Social processes and social applications • Complexity and critical mass • More users • Several stakeholders • local government, local communities, users, researchers, tech. companies, public funders

  11. What is needed • Services and applications • Project & design idea portfolio • Technological infrastructure • State-of-the-art & roadmaps into the future • Content database • Data collection • Statistics, anthropology, cultural geography • Lots of labour needed! Student projects & thesis work? • The structure of the database? • Accessible, scalable, flexible… • How is the data updated? • Today & in the future ? • In sum: a portable toolkit • The purpose is not to build technology and services to some area !! • Robust R&D instrument that can be used in other parts of the city or in other cities !!

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