Living Innovation Lab: A Human Centric Computing toward Healthy Living

TL;DR

This paper discusses Living Innovation Labs as user-centric, real-world environments that facilitate healthcare innovation through collaborative design, evaluation, and prototyping, aiming to enhance patient-centered solutions and knowledge exchange.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of Living Innovation Labs as an open, human-centric approach to healthcare innovation in real-life settings, emphasizing collaborative development and knowledge sharing.

Findings

Living Labs promote user involvement in healthcare innovation.

They facilitate rapid prototyping and evaluation in real environments.

Potential to address gaps in healthcare knowledge exchange.

Abstract

Living Lab is an umbrella term used for referring to a methodology of user-centric innovation in real-life environments within a wider network of relevant stake holders. Real-life environment refers to living houses and hospitals inter wined and connected together in a way which promotes direct usability of research by the end users. It primarily consists of three stages, Design thinking to actual Conceptualisation, Evaluation and Prototyping and Final product prototyping to commercialisation. The increasing demand of cutting age healthcare system is in itself a challenge and requires user involvement to mobilise knowledge to build a patient centered and knowledge-based economy. Innovations are constantly needed to reduce the problematic barriers to efficient knowledge exchange and improve collaborative problem solving. Living Innovation Lab, as open knowledge system, have immense potential to address these gaps that are underexplored in the healthcare system.