evolaris Mobile Living Lab Part of the European Network ENoLL
Living Labs forms a relatively new instrument, which is supposed to revolutionise the European innovation scenario. In contrast to classical laboratories, strictly delimited and controlled experiments with respondents were not conducted here, rather potential users were identified as co-developers of technological innovations. evolaris was then declared as 4th Austrian Living Lab in the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) at the ICT 2008 on 25/11/08 in Lyon and will closely collaborate here with similar European foundations.
The focus of evolaris' Mobile Living Lab is on improving the product development cycle of mobile applications for youth, especially in formal educational domains (school, university students). Here the Living Lab forms a framework, which serves as a "probe" immersed in the world of the target group to generate new ideas for services and products and to evaluate the same early on in a prototype stage. The target is systematic development of applications which will show a high rate of acceptability among youth, and excludes the customary expensive trial and error process. Methodically, in the framework of the product development cycle, mobile and online panels, as well as observations by innovation scouts in the exploration phase, focus groups and web-based discussions are applied in the phase of brainstorming, prototype development and testing in the evolaris User Experience Lab, in the implementation phase, mobile and online questionnaires, and face-to-face Interviews before market introduction.
Further info: http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/pdfs/evolaris-mobile-living-lab.pdf