Virtual Innovation & Research Cooperation Lab (Viral LL)
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[edit] Contacts
| Wolfgang Prinz (email) Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany |
| Steffen Budweg (email) Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany |
[edit] Events
- 17. Aug 2010, Socially Crafting Interactive Experiences 3rd Workshop on Open Design Spaces (ODS '10) at DIS 2010, Aarhus, Denmark
- 06. Sept 2009, 2nd Workshop on Open Design Spaces (ODS '09) at Mensch&Computer 2009, Berlin, Germany
- 1.-2. Sep 2009, BSCW User Forum 2009 at B-IT Centre, Germany
- 24. Aug 2009, Towards a Manifesto for Living Lab co-creation Workshop at INTERACT 2009, Uppsala, Sweden
- 15. July 2009, Agenda & Speaker's list of the 2nd Workshop on Open Design Spaces (ODS '09) published
- 9. July 2009, Viral LL@Living Lab Meeting, Arnhem
- 8. May 2009, CfP for the 2nd Workshop on Open Design Spaces (ODS '09)
- 30. April 2009, Proceedings of the Int. Workshop on Open Design Spaces published (ODS '09)
- 11.-13. Mar 2009, Professional Community Living Labs Meeting, Milano, Italy
- 02. Mar 2009, International Workshop on Open Design Spaces supporting User Innovation (ODS '09), Siegen, Germany
- 15. Jan 2009, Living Lab Networking, Brussels, Belgium
- 14. Jan 2009, EC Living Lab Day, Brussels, Belgium
- 16. Dec 2008, Living Lab Meeting, St. Augustin, Germany
- 25.-27. Nov 2008, ICT 2008, Lyon, France
- 02.-03. Sep 2008 Living Lab Workshop, Tübingen, Germany
- 10.-13. Aug 2008, IRIS31, Åre, Sweden
- 07.-10. Sep 2008, Mensch&Computer 2008, Lübeck, Germany
- 26 Aug 2008, Viral LL@User Training
- 24 Jul 2008, Viral LL@Living Lab Workshop
- 4.-5. Jul 2008, Research Methods Festival, Berlin, Germany
- 22 Apr 2008, Viral LL@14Plus user Workshop
- 06 Apr 2008, Viral LL@CHI 2008 DPD-Workshop
- 18 Mar 2008, Viral LL@Frascati user meeting
- 11 Mar 2008, Viral LL@Usability Workshop
- 03 Dec 2007, Viral LL@ESoCE-NET Industrial Forum
- 15 Nov 2007, Viral LL@Ecospace Living Lab Meeting
- 16.-17. Oct 2007, Viral LL@Open Innovation Community interactive day
- 16.-17 Oct 2007, Viral LL becomes 2nd wave member of the European Network of Living Labs
The Virtual Research & Innovation Cooperation Lab (Viral LL) is an interconnected network of platforms & activities aiming at facilitating research, development, innovation and market validation of new cooperation technologies in real-life environments.
[edit] Description of Concept
The Virtual Research & Innovation Cooperation Lab connects the technology support for the European Research & Innovation Community provided by different large cooperation platforms hosted by Fraunhofer FIT with the user-centred methodology framework created and applied within different European and national research projects towards the iterative development of future cooperation support.
The Living Lab is targeting research & innovation in a variety of ways:
- as a cooperation springboard and test-bed for individuals and projects offering an ad-hoc, free and easy to use opportunity to quickly set-up, explore and adopt a mature virtual cooperation environment for distributed collaborative work.
- a platform to research, develop and introduce new cooperation support technologies together with tool developers from leading commercial and non-commercial technology providers.
- to pursue a user-centred development approach and maintaining continuous communication and exchange with the user community.
- as incubator to support new business models like spin-offs around the technology itself, partners integrating cooperation & consulting services for specific domains or Open-Source projects extending functionality.
[edit] References and Track Record
The users and communities currently supported by collaboration technology support of the Virtual Research & Innovation Cooperation Lab comprise among others:
- more than 100.000 users on the public BSCW platform with a strong focus on professional use in research & innovation related areas,
- the Ami@Work Living Labs Open Innovation Community with many hundreds members,
- a large number of individual projects including Public-Private Partnerships.
The public BSCW server within the Living Lab is currently one of the largest public cooperation platforms available in the context of shared workspaces, being in service for more than 10 years and with more than 100.000 users who are using that service for their everyday work. Results of our activities have been documented in a number of milestones and deliverables of different projects, resulted in new technology & service developments and have been published in international conference and journal publications.
