This chapter considers the living lab concept and reflects on its use in ITAIDE. The idea of living labs is presented as a framework for studying and acting in living settings such as organisations, work places, public spaces and the wider environment. Living labs are also suggested as promising infrastructures for developing innovation.

Generating shared task initiatives in the user-modelling, adaptation and personalization (UMAP) space is difficult, especially given individual difference, privacy concerns and the interactive nature of the space. We put forward that the living labs evaluation paradigm, i.e., observing users in their natural task environments, has potential to overcome these difficulties and to allow for compar...

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We study the linear response of living systems, which break and recombine randomly The mean field approximation gives an analytical solution for the time evolution of the response As an example, the viscosity of living polymers is computed New scaling laws for viscosity are found in the case of very short lifetimes The laws do not depend in an obvious

Ahe Chinese have a proverb that says that if you give a man a fish, he will have food for only one day. But if you teach the man how to fish, you will feed him for the rest of his life. Old fashioned as it may seem, this maxim may nevertheless prove to be the key to training science journalists and thereby increasing public understanding of science and technology in the developing world. Scienc...

This paper introduces the concept of living labs and shows the results of a survey of the living labs network. The main value of the study is that it provides findings about the diversity of living labs, how they engage with users and how strong the relationships are between living labs.