A University of Ulster Innovation Lab visit trail. ulster.ac.uk
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A University of Ulster Innovation Labvisit trail.ulster.ac.uk
Research Session 3: Case studies in Living Lab application
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The 4th ENoLL Living Lab Summer School 27-30 August 2013
Manchester School of Arts
Pop-up Living Labs: Experiments in Co-creating Service Design with Diverse
Stakeholders in Hackerspace CommunitiesProf Maurice Mulvenna
TRAIL Living Lab @ University of Ulster
Outline• About TRAIL• Background to the project• Research questions• Triple-helix• Ideation outcomes• Conclusions
TRAIL Living Lab• Based at University of Ulster• First Living Lab in Northern Ireland
(2007)• Engaging with local communities
and enterprises to design co-creative solutions
• From linear model to networked model
• Cycles of innovation activity• Triple Helix partnerships
Health Service• Major change in
care provision, outlined in ‘Transforming Your Care’ document in December 2011
Reablement• Supporting people such as the
elderly to live in their own homes whilst providing a programme underpinning the skills and confidence necessary for daily living
• Rollout of reablement services in Belfast providing interventions for older city dwellers
Reablement requirements• Innovation in service design • Technology development to support
the intervention
Project structure• Funded by Innovation Vouchers (£4K
each)• Competitive bid to Invest NI, our
regional economic development agency
• Social enterprises applied as a pool (Ardmonagh Family and Community Group, Engage with Age, Volunteer Now, Oasis Caring in Action, and Shopmobility Belfast)
Project structure• We subcontracted 20% of pool total
to the Belfast Hackerspace, Farset Labs
Project plan• Ideation events• Hackathons• Capture user stories• Agile software development• Validation by stakeholders• Scale up
Research questions• Explore if the location context and mix
of participants created a beneficial effect in the process of capturing the needs of the stakeholders. Specifically, – Does this kind of experimental co-creation
process support ideation, and how? – How does the creation of a ‘pop-up’ living
lab that brings together the triple-helix of partners - plus users work?
Triple-Helix Configurations
Rationale – triple-helix
Rationale – triple-helix
Pop-up space
So what could a successful pathway look like?
• coders and carers• ideation events• mix the blend • harmonise towards user stories• hack user interfaces• build stakeholder community
Ideation outcomes• Data capture• Data sharing• Service Directory• Governance• Assessment model
Conclusions• Experimental co-creation process does
support ideation • Empowering heterogeneous groups of
people from different domains of knowledge and levels of expertise to ideate freely and generate new knowledge
• Leads to an improvement in the appropriateness and quality of the resulting service design
Acknowledgements• Thanks to Ardmonagh Family and
Community Group, Engage with Age, Volunteer Now, Oasis Caring in Action, and Shopmobility Belfast for their enthusiasm and participation, Invest NI Innovation Voucher programme for their financial support in this project, and to Age NI, Bryson Care and Belfast Health & Social Care Trust for their farsightedness.
…THANKS