New(s) Media Ecosystem
This three year project starts January 1st 2013 and is financed by the KK Foundation with 5,25 MSEK. Newspaper partners are: Aftonbladet, Expressen, Göteborgs‐Posten, Helsingborgs Dagblad, Mediabolaget Västkusten AB, MittMedia and Västerbottens-Kuriren.
The project addresses the following research questions:
How does changing media experiences/habits influence media house ecosystems?
What are the frames and building blocks that are adaptable to business modeling for digital new(s) media, and how can new business models be designed?
The overall goal of this project is to generate a comprehensive view of the changing news media ecosystem to prepare the newspaper partners for the future and the researchers to contribute to the body of knowledge within this area. The contributions of this project are expected to be:
- Identification and description of today´s digital media ecosystem of newspapers
- Descriptions of consumption patterns regarding different devices for media consumption as well as user preferences of future media services
- Identification and description of frames and building blocks of business models leveraging value in the digital business ecosystem
- Models of new(s) media ecosystems considering changing media experiences/habits and ecosystem relationships
Towards a Health Innovation Alliance (HIA)
This project runs between September 1st 2012 to June 30th 2013 and is funded by VINNOVA with 2 MSEK.
The project aims at integrating Halmstad Living Lab with Centre for Health Technology Halland and Healthcare Technology Alliance into a new constellation called Health Innovation Alliance (HIA). The aim is to further develop innovation processes based on user needs and to build a sustainable milieu based on revenues from industry and public sector as well as by attracting external funding for research both nationally and internationally. This is a mobilization and concentration to refine a substantial theoretical base into practice.
SOCIALL
The SOCIALL project is lead by SINTEF and other partners is Copenhagen Living Lab and Botnia Living Lab. This is a three year project LILAN project with a total budget of 5.345.000 SEK funded by Nordforsk. The project objective is: "Value-creating use of social software for co-creation in (a) existing Living Lab infrastructures and (b) SMEs with little or no previous experience with Living Labs". This project ends February 2013.
Key SOCIALL results
and effects are:
- Social software optimized for co-creation in Living Labs.
- Increased understanding of the potential of social software for
innovation in industry, public sector and academia.
- SME uptake of social software to support user involvement in
innovation and co-creation. Expected effect at the level of the
participating countries.
- Uptake of social software for co-creation in existing Living Lab
infrastructures. Expected effect at the European level.
Express to Connect (E2C)
The E2C project spans over three years (ending March 2013) and is funded by the Ambient Assistent Living (AAL) joint programme. Halmstad Living Lab has a project budget of 746.245 euro with national funding from VINNOVA. The E2C proposal focuses on finding a solution to the very challenging issues and problems concerning:
1. Preventing
seniors’ internal experience of loneliness as this is strongly
associated with dissatisfaction with life.
2. Develop a new innovative solution for an emergent EU market for
“preventive social technology”, consisting of the increasing part of
elderly people age 65+.
3. Creating implementation strategies that allow the solution a
place in the service ecology of elderly care by contributing to a
stop in the predicted rise in costs of health and long term care.
The project integrates the individual and societal level with the commercial perspectives in four European countries with the help of Living Lab approaches. E2C aims to offer ways and occasions for communities among the users to be created, as it will intensify interaction, communication and dialogue between the users and contribute to the feeling of wellbeing, self esteem and belonging.
The main results of
the project can be divided into three subcategories:
1. At an individual level E2C aims at helping people to stay active
by using their creative potential (as former experiences,
competences, ways of thinking and working etc.).
2. At a societal level having more elderly people continuing to live
independent, active and satisfying lives in their own homes will
have a preventive impact on predicted rise in costs of health and
long term care.
3. E2C aims at creating a sustainable commercial solution that
develop the existing solutions into a wide spread E2C service. This
is done by applying specific, relevant media-content and social
media principles (as seen on for instance YouTube and Facebook)
which are not broadly used by elderly people today.
The project partners involved are:
Copenhagen Living Lab (project
coordinator), Substanz A/S, Forum Virium Helsinki, Heutink ICT,
Multi Media Tables BV, Waag Society, Laurea University of Applied
Sciences, Halmstad University (Halmstad Living Lab), Halmstad
Municipality and The Active Seniors Association.
For more information, please visit the project web site.
Free2Ride
We have a new
VINNOVA project accepted with funding of 1.500.000:- called
"Free2Ride". It is a project with Free2Move AB, Laholmsortens and
Hylte Ryttarförening. Jesper Svensson is the project leader for this
project.
Free2Ride is a VINNOVA funded project where the technology company
is cooperating with researchers and end-users in the development
process of an IT-demonstrator. The idea was generated by users in
previous Living Lab activities. The IT-demonstrator aims to support
safety and communication issues that relates to horseback riding
activities.
The results from the project will be threefold:
1. The evaluation of the IT-demonstrator will provide solid results
concerning what benefits and values the IT-demonstrator brings into
this context.
2. The planned approach will enable the researchers to learn more
about how user involvement influences IT-innovation process as well
as the IT-innovation. Moreover this project enables ways of testing
how distributed collaboration tools can support face2face methods
and techniques for user involvement.
3. Furthermore, this approach will increase the company’s competence
regarding methods for user involvement in IT-innovation processes.
The Local Newspaper 2.0 - with engaged readers (LoCoMedia)
KK-stiftelsen has granted this project 2.015.000:- over a two year period. Partners are: Helsingborgs Dagblad Nya Medier AB, Göteborgs-Posten Nya AB, Mediebolaget i Halland AB, NA Tidningar AB, Sydsvenskan AB, VLT and Västkustmedia AB. This is a collaboration project between Halmstad University and Jönköping International Business School. Carina Ihlström Eriksson is project leader.
The two overall
research questions, relevant for both industrial and scientific
research are:
How can an open media environment be designed to leverage the
values of user generated content (UGC) in media and
news production?
How can different stakeholders be involved in the process of
designing innovative UGC services?
Expected results
of the project are:
1. Detailed descriptions of values and drivers for, and challenges
of, creating UGC services from
different stakeholders perspectives
2. A conceptual model of an open media environment leverage the
values of UGC in media and news
production
3. A framework for organizing open innovation processes for
designing UGC services
We proudly present the newspaper that we have published together with the newspapers
For more information in Swedish - please visit locomedia.se
Silver Technology
We have a new project accepted with funding of 995.000:- for the first part of three (divided between the three partners) from VINNOVA that is called "Silver Technology". Project partners are Halmstad Living Lab, and Stockholm Living Lab and 2 municipalities (Halmstad and Botkyrka). Carina Ihlström Eriksson is project leader. The project aims at exploring the needs of senior citizens and their next of kins for a better technological aid that supports independent living.
Secure at home - Smart locks
We have a new project accepted with funding of 1.500.000:- (divided between the three partners) from VINNOVA that is called "Secure at home - smart locks". It is a project with Phoniro AB, Emwitech AB and Föreningen för anhörigvårdare. Jesper Svensson is the project leader of this project.
Secure at Home –
Smart Locks is a VINNOVA funded project where two technology
companies are cooperating with researchers and end-users in the
development process of an IT-demonstrator. The idea to the
demonstrator was generated by users in previous Living Lab
activities. The IT-demonstrator aims to mitigate the problems
connected to safety and security for elderly people living alone at
home. Furthermore it will also provide enhanced communication
possibilities between for example a caretaker, a caregiver and next
of kin to the elderly.
The results from the project will be threefold:
1. The evaluation of the IT-demonstrator will provide solid results
concerning what benefits and values the IT-demonstrator brings into
this context.
2. The planned approach will enable the researchers to learn more
about how user participation influences an IT-innovation process as
well as the IT-innovation.
3. Furthermore, this approach will increase the companies competence
regarding methods for user involvement in IT-innovation processes.
Secure at home - Living lab
The project "Secure at home - Living lab" has been accepted by VINNOVA and has been granted 1.600.000:- for a two year period, starting 2007-08-01. Project leader is Carina Ihlström Eriksson. The project is a collaboration between CIIT, CERES and IS-lab. Partners in this project are:
- Emwitech
- Free2move
- Halmstad Fastighets AB
- Innovation Team
- Komikapp Rehatek
- LBS Science Park
- MedicPen
- Neat Electronics
- Phoniro
- ProEvolution
- Unity by Light AB
Living lab –
Secure at home is a VINNOVA funded research project exploring the
possibilities with a living lab approach. The project primarily
focuses on methods for user involvement in the innovation process.
The context of the living lab is ICT services and products aimed at
supporting and empowering elderly people.
The overall research question within this project is: In what way
does user participation affects the innovation process in a Living
Lab approach?
The results from the project will be divided into three categories:
1. Evaluation and development of methods for user participation in
the innovation process.
2. Establish a long-lasting living lab at Halmstad University. To be
able to do this, we need to:
a) generate knowledge about suitable models and methods for a user
centric innovation system,
b) bring together relevant and needed partners,
c) establish a user database.
3. Support our partners development processes of new products and
services aimed at empowering the elderly.
Designing Ubiquitous Media Services through Action Research (UbiMedia)
The project "Designing Ubiquitous Media Services through Action Research" has been accepted by the KK-foundation and has been granted 2.490.000:- for a two year period, starting 2006-07-01. Project leader is Carina Ihlström Eriksson. Partners in this project are:
- Aftonbladet
- Expressen
- Dagens Nyheter
- Göteborgs-Posten
- Nerikes Allehanda
- Norrköpings Tidningar
- Sundsvalls Tidning
- Sydsvenskan
- Stampen AB
- Tidningsutgivarna
- Östgöta Correspondenten
This two year project targets the challenge of designing ubiquitous media services for a multitude of devices and contexts to be consumed anytime and anywhere. Common issues have been identified, such as integration and maintenance, use and adoption of multi-channel services and interaction models. Targeting this challenge, the proposed project will be conducted as an action research effort where newspaper firms collaborate with researchers. Expected results from this project include guidelines for newspaper firms seeking ubiquitous infrastructure support for profitable media services that leverage user value.
We proudly present the three movie clips, featuring Albin, Diana and Maria, that is one of the results from our UbiMedia project. The material to the movie clips was developed in collaboration with our nine newspaper partners. The movie clips was produced by Quincy.
For more information in Swedish - please visit ubimedia.se
The Intelligent tourism project is a collaboration between Media IT (CIIT), IS-lab at Halmstad University and Region Halland. During 2006 and 2007 we had 50.000:- budgets to conduct initial studies. In 2008 we have 300.000:- for conducting several activities.
