Bring the lab to the cities: experiences from two Dutch Living Labs
Ingrid Mulder, Daan Velthausz, Patrick Strating, Henri ter Hofte
Telematica Instituut, P.O. Box 589, 7500 AN Enschede, The Netherlands
{Ingrid.Mulder, Daan.Velthausz, Patrick.Strating, Henri.terHofte}@telin.nl
The Living Labs concept is emerging, and seems appropriate for in-situ research. In this article, experiences of two Dutch Living Labs named Freeband and Kenniswijk are presented and reflected upon to motivate the current debate on experience and applications research. From the Kenniswijk and Freeband initiatives we have gained the insight that combining both approaches into one intelligent large-scale real-life environment provides an unobtrusive high quality environment in which usage of (novel) application can be validated. Such a future Living Lab raises new challenges and asks for new methods of data collecting and data analysis.
