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New paradigms, such as Open Innovation (Chesbrough, 2003) and Web 2.0 (O’Reilly, 2004) as well as Living Labs operating as a User Centred Open Innovation Ecosystem (Pallot, 2009), promote a more proactive role of users in the R&D process. However, a number of existing methods for involving users are abundantly described in the literature, such as Lead User (Von Hippel, 2005), User Driv

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ECOSPACE newsletter double issue n°9 & 10 including latest project development on the Collaborative Environment Reference Architecture and Basic Collaborative Services as well as Shaping the Future of ENoLL and AMI Communities.

Whether you have an interest in Living Labs and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) artefacts exploration and experimentation then take a look at the following paper which has been presented at the CWE'08 event that took place during the ICE'2008 conference in Lisbon from 23 to 25 June 2008.

Here is the link to this paper which is reporting about an empirical study conducted through

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This is the first special issue of the ECOSPACE Newsletter which is dedicated to the topic of Living Lab. All Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) Integrated Projects (IP), namely Collaboration@Rural, CoSpaces, ECOSPACE, LABORANOVA and WearIT@Work projects are implementing a Living Lab approach in order to further explore, experiment and evaluate the concept of user-centred research and

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INFRALLABS is the name given to the project of building up an EU overall Research Infrastructure dedicated to User-centred and Multidisciplinary Research also known as "Experience and Application Research" (EAR). The acronym EAR has been created by the ISTAG committee and the concept is described in the EAR ISTAG Report 2004.

Take a look at the ECOSPACE video introducing the topic of Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) which is rather Collaborative Web Environment in the case of the ECOSPACE EU IP project.

 

Producing a video about a research project, even a short one, is a real challenge, especially when the allocated budget doesn't allow you to do what you would love to do...

One may think that introducin

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