Living Lab is an approach to innovation and development where users are directly involved in technology innovataion, taking their own life context as their starting point. A large number of Living Labs have been established in Europe the last few years, in partricular within the ICT field.

Projects

• RECORD - established the first Norwegian Living Lab
• SociaLL - Social software for co-creation in Living Labs is a nordic resewarch project involving SINTEF, Copenhagen Living Lab, Halmstad Living Lab and Botnia Living Lab.
• NETworked POWER  will use the Living Lab for feedback on solutions where social media are used for innovation purposes.
• R2D2 networks will use the Living lab to involve users of web-based media in analyses of their own media usage.
• CITIZEN MEDIA has used participants from the Living Lab to get feedback on solutions developed in the project.