Title
Designing for the living room: long-term user involvement in a living lab
Abstract
Living Labs provide a research infrastructure for long-term user involvement in Participatory Design processes. Users take part in software co-creation during context analysis, for concept development, reflecting on early-stage prototypes and evaluations in the field. In this paper we describe lessons learned from our Living Lab in the area of home entertainment, with 27 participants from 16 households, over a 2.5 year period. We show that this kind of long-term participation of users involves various challenges over the lifetime of the project. We highlight several aspects that need to be considered carefully when setting up such a Living Lab, concerning the selection of participants, maintenance of participants' motivation, establishment of a trust relationship, and the coordination of collaboration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2470654.2466205
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
early-stage prototype,software co-creation,living room,concept development,trust relationship,participatory design,context analysis,home entertainment,living lab,research infrastructure,long-term participation,long-term user involvement
Trust relationship,Participatory design,Context analysis,Computer science,Knowledge management,Home entertainment,Software,Concept development,Human–computer interaction,Living lab,Living room
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
24
1.27
22
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Corinna Ogonowski18910.04
Benedikt Ley211412.50
Jan Hess313413.29
Lin Wan41169.69
Volker Wulf52119219.33