Abstract
Living Labs serve as a novel form of collaborating and developing innovation. As interactive, physical settings, they hold several possibilities of facilitating co-creation with diverse stakeholders. Research on tools and methods used in Living Labs is still under development. To contribute to this research, this paper investigates the use of tools for interaction in a Living Lab. A longitudinal exploratory case study on the JOSEPHS® in Nuremberg was applied. This study finds that (1) there are three categories of tools used for integrating visitors, (2) interaction with visitors in a Living Lab depends on the factors time and commitment and (3) tools for different integration types need to be matched to the determinants of interaction. The study contributes to literature on co-creation and interaction in Living Labs by highlighting that visitor roles should not be perceived as fixed user categories, but as the variable result of interaction with applied tools.
Keywords
co-creation, living labs, tools, interaction
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/servdes2018.35
Citation
Perez Mengual, M., Jonas, J., Schmitt-Rüth, S.,and Danzinger, F.(2018) Tools for collaborating and interacting in living labs - an exploratory case study on JOSEPHS®, in Anna Meroni, Ana María Ospina Medina, Beatrice Villari (eds.), ServDes 2018: Service Design Proof of Concept, 18–20 June, Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.21606/servdes2018.35
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Tools for collaborating and interacting in living labs - an exploratory case study on JOSEPHS®
Living Labs serve as a novel form of collaborating and developing innovation. As interactive, physical settings, they hold several possibilities of facilitating co-creation with diverse stakeholders. Research on tools and methods used in Living Labs is still under development. To contribute to this research, this paper investigates the use of tools for interaction in a Living Lab. A longitudinal exploratory case study on the JOSEPHS® in Nuremberg was applied. This study finds that (1) there are three categories of tools used for integrating visitors, (2) interaction with visitors in a Living Lab depends on the factors time and commitment and (3) tools for different integration types need to be matched to the determinants of interaction. The study contributes to literature on co-creation and interaction in Living Labs by highlighting that visitor roles should not be perceived as fixed user categories, but as the variable result of interaction with applied tools.