Jan Coppens - Acceleration & Internationalizationimec.archive
This document summarizes several programs to help companies with acceleration, internationalization, financing, and research & development. It describes the Plug & Play Tech Center program to help companies spend up to 3 months in Silicon Valley. It also details the EBN Soft Landing program network of incubators across 22 countries that provides short-term business support. Additionally, it outlines the Fast-Track Funding program to help young companies obtain early-stage funding through coaching and showcasing opportunities. Finally, it mentions leveraging IBBT's research expertise through programs like iLab.t and iLab.o to support SME R&D needs.
This document discusses personas and how they can be used to communicate user research findings within an organization. It covers:
1. What personas are and how they represent target users through fictional profiles based on user data.
2. The benefits of using personas over big documents, including how they promote collaboration, communication, and empathy for users.
3. The process of creating personas through workshops that analyze user data, create fictional profiles, and prioritize key users.
4. Methods for using personas like walkthroughs, prioritization lists, and moodboards to guide design decisions.
Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Forum 2013: How is Mobile Transforming Bus...Seth Berman
This document summarizes a presentation on how mobile is transforming business. The presentation discusses the state of mobile marketing and provides examples from brands like UPS, Red Tomato, Comcast, and Lincoln. It outlines five things companies should do: understand customer needs that can be enhanced by mobile; identify and rank mobile opportunities; utilize core brand assets; develop quickly and iterate mobile solutions; and look beyond technology to business transformation. The presentation aims to help companies look at how they can transform their business using mobile opportunities.
AlertNet focuses on crises that overwhelm local capacity, such as conflicts in Darfur, Congo, Colombia and natural disasters like the Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. It also covers "forgotten crises" and provides early warning of issues like hunger in the Horn of Africa and violence in Sri Lanka. AlertNet aims to support post-conflict recovery in places such as Angola, East Timor and Cambodia. It also reports on health crises including HIV/AIDS, malaria and Ebola.
Bart Meekers from RMONI wireless presents at iLAB about wireless testing. RMONI was founded in 2005 to develop Zigbee-based sensor networks and Sensor2Web technology. They now have 12 employees and work with investors like Allegro Investment Fund. RMONI's Sensor2Web allows wireless sensors to collect data like temperature and humidity which is sent over the internet to a data storage and user application system. RMONI is working on a project called MoCo with IBBT and industrial partners to monitor shipping containers using a wireless network, which faces technical challenges due to the metal and conditions, as well as economic challenges of different product levels. The iLab.t testbed can be used to test solutions
Jan Coppens - Acceleration & Internationalizationimec.archive
This document summarizes several programs to help companies with acceleration, internationalization, financing, and research & development. It describes the Plug & Play Tech Center program to help companies spend up to 3 months in Silicon Valley. It also details the EBN Soft Landing program network of incubators across 22 countries that provides short-term business support. Additionally, it outlines the Fast-Track Funding program to help young companies obtain early-stage funding through coaching and showcasing opportunities. Finally, it mentions leveraging IBBT's research expertise through programs like iLab.t and iLab.o to support SME R&D needs.
This document discusses personas and how they can be used to communicate user research findings within an organization. It covers:
1. What personas are and how they represent target users through fictional profiles based on user data.
2. The benefits of using personas over big documents, including how they promote collaboration, communication, and empathy for users.
3. The process of creating personas through workshops that analyze user data, create fictional profiles, and prioritize key users.
4. Methods for using personas like walkthroughs, prioritization lists, and moodboards to guide design decisions.
Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Forum 2013: How is Mobile Transforming Bus...Seth Berman
This document summarizes a presentation on how mobile is transforming business. The presentation discusses the state of mobile marketing and provides examples from brands like UPS, Red Tomato, Comcast, and Lincoln. It outlines five things companies should do: understand customer needs that can be enhanced by mobile; identify and rank mobile opportunities; utilize core brand assets; develop quickly and iterate mobile solutions; and look beyond technology to business transformation. The presentation aims to help companies look at how they can transform their business using mobile opportunities.
AlertNet focuses on crises that overwhelm local capacity, such as conflicts in Darfur, Congo, Colombia and natural disasters like the Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. It also covers "forgotten crises" and provides early warning of issues like hunger in the Horn of Africa and violence in Sri Lanka. AlertNet aims to support post-conflict recovery in places such as Angola, East Timor and Cambodia. It also reports on health crises including HIV/AIDS, malaria and Ebola.
Bart Meekers from RMONI wireless presents at iLAB about wireless testing. RMONI was founded in 2005 to develop Zigbee-based sensor networks and Sensor2Web technology. They now have 12 employees and work with investors like Allegro Investment Fund. RMONI's Sensor2Web allows wireless sensors to collect data like temperature and humidity which is sent over the internet to a data storage and user application system. RMONI is working on a project called MoCo with IBBT and industrial partners to monitor shipping containers using a wireless network, which faces technical challenges due to the metal and conditions, as well as economic challenges of different product levels. The iLab.t testbed can be used to test solutions
Kirsten Van Gossum - privacy in relation to technology in the (health)careimec.archive
1) The document discusses setting up privacy-friendly electronic health records (EHRs) by outlining key steps in the legal setup of an EHR project.
2) It recommends identifying relevant actors, deciding how data will be used, and obtaining patient consent before testing an EHR system.
3) During development, the document advises cooperating on security measures and drafting data agreements to comply with applicable privacy and medical laws.
Workshopvin7 Virtual Private Ad Hoc Networksimec.archive
Virtual private ad hoc networks (VPANs) are proposed as a new communication paradigm to address the shortcomings of today's large public networks. VPANs would allow for the formation of secure, self-organizing overlay networks between connected devices according to the user's needs and context. They integrate ad hoc networking techniques to dynamically configure private networks of distributed, mobile nodes. This new approach could support communication within limited scopes like work projects, personal networks of friends and family, or emergency response teams, allowing for easy management of wireless connectivity in different environments.
The document describes a user study conducted to predict market adoption of internet on trains. A survey was completed by 964 people to profile potential adopter segments and their needs. The study used a Product Specific Adoption Potential (PSAP) methodology to segment adopters into innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority and laggards. The analysis found the service had a clear short and long term market potential, especially for innovators and early adopters. Price was identified as a crucial factor for adoption, while reliability and speed were most important quality of service features.
I Minds2009 Markku Markkula Research & Innovations Lessons Learnt In Creat...imec.archive
1) Markku Markkula discusses lessons learned from creating Aalto University through the merging of three universities in Finland.
2) Aalto University aims to have a strong focus on strategic areas and secure independent resources for research, create a new student-centric culture, and better integrate research, teaching, and societal interaction.
3) By 2020, Aalto University aims to become the most important player in setting Finland's science, creativity, and innovation agenda and to develop strengths as a globally unique hub of excellence in research and innovation.
Break out: Project Communication and Dissemination - Karen Boersimec.archive
The document discusses communication and dissemination strategies for research projects. It provides testimonials from researchers about communicating their work. Key points are made about creating economic, societal, and scientific value through communication. Guidance is given on determining the main message, target audience, appropriate format, and making the communication appealing. The document outlines communication services and templates available through IBBT, such as website pages, flyers, videos, and events. It encourages researchers to contact IBBT for assistance with project communication.
The document summarizes a technical workshop on wireless sensor networks. It provides an overview of the hardware and software used, including the Tmote Sky and EE sensor nodes, the iNode embedded PCs, and the TinyOS software platform. It also describes the Job scheduling system and iPlatform that are used to define and run experiments on the testbed.
This progress report summarizes work on co-clustering methods for documents and words, including a new proposed method called CCAM (Co-clustering with Augmented Matrix). It introduces baseline K-means clustering, existing ITCC method, and the new CCAM method. Results are evaluated using both a results-based approach comparing cluster assignments, and a feature-based approach using cluster assignments as additional features. CCAM outperforms ITCC and baseline methods on average F-measure for ad and user clustering across different values of K clusters. Future work includes discretizing features and exploring different CCAM parameters.
Online Marketing Summit: Inbox is the New PortalSeth Berman
The document discusses how mobile devices have become the new portal for mothers, with over half of mothers saying they are addicted to their smartphones. It shows that mothers are highly engaged with their smartphones on a daily basis to check email, get deals, take photos, and stay connected on social media. The rise of mobile usage has made email an important way for brands to filter communications to these highly connected mobile users.
El documento contiene 49 páginas de notas sin archivar tomadas entre el 6 y 7 de julio de 2010. Las notas no están organizadas o etiquetadas de ninguna manera.
The document discusses a living lab for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to involve users in the product development process from an early stage. Some key benefits mentioned include detecting unintended problems or opportunities through active user involvement, conducting multi-method research to enrich products academically, and allowing technologies to be domesticated by users rather than just consumed. The living lab offers services to SMEs to help fast track the process from ideation to demonstration through co-creation with various user types and extra funding and support opportunities.
This document discusses the iterative process of co-creating an ontology with stakeholders. Researchers conducted contextual inquiries through documentation analysis, observations, and interviews across multiple healthcare sites. Scenarios were developed and used in workshops with various stakeholders including medical professionals, engineers, and social scientists. The workshops introduced ontologies and involved role playing, decision making, and concept evaluation. A proof of concept was developed using a personal electronic device to demonstrate the ontology. The document reflects on further refining the process and developing the research.
PRoF is a living lab that builds very life-like environments using state-of-the-art products to enable early testing and concept validation. It provides an ecosystem for innovation and business across companies, academia, users, and care actors. PRoF has a long history of collaboration and has had a big impact on innovation in healthcare.
Results of the Apollon pilot in homecare and independent livingimec.archive
The document summarizes the results of the Apollon pilot project evaluating the use of living lab networks for testing homecare and independent living services across borders. The pilot involved transferring three such services between four living labs in different countries. A key finding was that a common cross-border ecosystem model for living labs in healthcare was not feasible due to differences between countries in areas like value networks, organization of healthcare, regulations, and infrastructure. However, living labs could still effectively serve as brokers and matchmakers to enable cross-border collaboration by addressing issues around stakeholders, access to users, liability, ethics, rules, and safety. Based on this pilot, the document advocates for a domain-specific network of smart care living labs to facilitate knowledge
Delivery of feedback on Health, Home Security and Home Energy in Aware Homes ...imec.archive
This document discusses the CASALA Living Lab, which conducts research on delivering feedback to users about their health, home security, and energy usage using sensors in ambient assisted living homes. The CASALA Living Lab has multiple stages, including virtual environments, a facility called Great Northern Haven with over 2,000 sensors collecting data from 16 apartments, and community deployments. The lab aims to understand user behavior from real-world data and provide feedback to empower users. Challenges include lack of market awareness for ambient assisted living and siloed funding, while successes involve end-user involvement and driving education and adoption of these technologies.
The document describes the Emmanuel Haven Living Lab located in Motherwell, South Africa. The Living Lab was established to provide prevention, treatment, care and support to communities impacted by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and diabetes. It aims to mitigate the health, psychological and socio-economic effects of these diseases through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and community programs. Some of its initiatives include using mobile technologies to enable home-based care, nutritional education, and skills development for disabled community members. The Living Lab faces challenges such as lack of infrastructure, connectivity and access issues, as well as social challenges like poverty and low literacy levels in the community.
Kirsten Van Gossum - privacy in relation to technology in the (health)careimec.archive
1) The document discusses setting up privacy-friendly electronic health records (EHRs) by outlining key steps in the legal setup of an EHR project.
2) It recommends identifying relevant actors, deciding how data will be used, and obtaining patient consent before testing an EHR system.
3) During development, the document advises cooperating on security measures and drafting data agreements to comply with applicable privacy and medical laws.
Workshopvin7 Virtual Private Ad Hoc Networksimec.archive
Virtual private ad hoc networks (VPANs) are proposed as a new communication paradigm to address the shortcomings of today's large public networks. VPANs would allow for the formation of secure, self-organizing overlay networks between connected devices according to the user's needs and context. They integrate ad hoc networking techniques to dynamically configure private networks of distributed, mobile nodes. This new approach could support communication within limited scopes like work projects, personal networks of friends and family, or emergency response teams, allowing for easy management of wireless connectivity in different environments.
The document describes a user study conducted to predict market adoption of internet on trains. A survey was completed by 964 people to profile potential adopter segments and their needs. The study used a Product Specific Adoption Potential (PSAP) methodology to segment adopters into innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority and laggards. The analysis found the service had a clear short and long term market potential, especially for innovators and early adopters. Price was identified as a crucial factor for adoption, while reliability and speed were most important quality of service features.
I Minds2009 Markku Markkula Research & Innovations Lessons Learnt In Creat...imec.archive
1) Markku Markkula discusses lessons learned from creating Aalto University through the merging of three universities in Finland.
2) Aalto University aims to have a strong focus on strategic areas and secure independent resources for research, create a new student-centric culture, and better integrate research, teaching, and societal interaction.
3) By 2020, Aalto University aims to become the most important player in setting Finland's science, creativity, and innovation agenda and to develop strengths as a globally unique hub of excellence in research and innovation.
Break out: Project Communication and Dissemination - Karen Boersimec.archive
The document discusses communication and dissemination strategies for research projects. It provides testimonials from researchers about communicating their work. Key points are made about creating economic, societal, and scientific value through communication. Guidance is given on determining the main message, target audience, appropriate format, and making the communication appealing. The document outlines communication services and templates available through IBBT, such as website pages, flyers, videos, and events. It encourages researchers to contact IBBT for assistance with project communication.
The document summarizes a technical workshop on wireless sensor networks. It provides an overview of the hardware and software used, including the Tmote Sky and EE sensor nodes, the iNode embedded PCs, and the TinyOS software platform. It also describes the Job scheduling system and iPlatform that are used to define and run experiments on the testbed.
This progress report summarizes work on co-clustering methods for documents and words, including a new proposed method called CCAM (Co-clustering with Augmented Matrix). It introduces baseline K-means clustering, existing ITCC method, and the new CCAM method. Results are evaluated using both a results-based approach comparing cluster assignments, and a feature-based approach using cluster assignments as additional features. CCAM outperforms ITCC and baseline methods on average F-measure for ad and user clustering across different values of K clusters. Future work includes discretizing features and exploring different CCAM parameters.
Online Marketing Summit: Inbox is the New PortalSeth Berman
The document discusses how mobile devices have become the new portal for mothers, with over half of mothers saying they are addicted to their smartphones. It shows that mothers are highly engaged with their smartphones on a daily basis to check email, get deals, take photos, and stay connected on social media. The rise of mobile usage has made email an important way for brands to filter communications to these highly connected mobile users.
El documento contiene 49 páginas de notas sin archivar tomadas entre el 6 y 7 de julio de 2010. Las notas no están organizadas o etiquetadas de ninguna manera.
The document discusses a living lab for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to involve users in the product development process from an early stage. Some key benefits mentioned include detecting unintended problems or opportunities through active user involvement, conducting multi-method research to enrich products academically, and allowing technologies to be domesticated by users rather than just consumed. The living lab offers services to SMEs to help fast track the process from ideation to demonstration through co-creation with various user types and extra funding and support opportunities.
This document discusses the iterative process of co-creating an ontology with stakeholders. Researchers conducted contextual inquiries through documentation analysis, observations, and interviews across multiple healthcare sites. Scenarios were developed and used in workshops with various stakeholders including medical professionals, engineers, and social scientists. The workshops introduced ontologies and involved role playing, decision making, and concept evaluation. A proof of concept was developed using a personal electronic device to demonstrate the ontology. The document reflects on further refining the process and developing the research.
PRoF is a living lab that builds very life-like environments using state-of-the-art products to enable early testing and concept validation. It provides an ecosystem for innovation and business across companies, academia, users, and care actors. PRoF has a long history of collaboration and has had a big impact on innovation in healthcare.
Results of the Apollon pilot in homecare and independent livingimec.archive
The document summarizes the results of the Apollon pilot project evaluating the use of living lab networks for testing homecare and independent living services across borders. The pilot involved transferring three such services between four living labs in different countries. A key finding was that a common cross-border ecosystem model for living labs in healthcare was not feasible due to differences between countries in areas like value networks, organization of healthcare, regulations, and infrastructure. However, living labs could still effectively serve as brokers and matchmakers to enable cross-border collaboration by addressing issues around stakeholders, access to users, liability, ethics, rules, and safety. Based on this pilot, the document advocates for a domain-specific network of smart care living labs to facilitate knowledge
Delivery of feedback on Health, Home Security and Home Energy in Aware Homes ...imec.archive
This document discusses the CASALA Living Lab, which conducts research on delivering feedback to users about their health, home security, and energy usage using sensors in ambient assisted living homes. The CASALA Living Lab has multiple stages, including virtual environments, a facility called Great Northern Haven with over 2,000 sensors collecting data from 16 apartments, and community deployments. The lab aims to understand user behavior from real-world data and provide feedback to empower users. Challenges include lack of market awareness for ambient assisted living and siloed funding, while successes involve end-user involvement and driving education and adoption of these technologies.
The document describes the Emmanuel Haven Living Lab located in Motherwell, South Africa. The Living Lab was established to provide prevention, treatment, care and support to communities impacted by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and diabetes. It aims to mitigate the health, psychological and socio-economic effects of these diseases through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and community programs. Some of its initiatives include using mobile technologies to enable home-based care, nutritional education, and skills development for disabled community members. The Living Lab faces challenges such as lack of infrastructure, connectivity and access issues, as well as social challenges like poverty and low literacy levels in the community.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Health-Lab Amsterdam is a living lab platform focused on testing and improving ICT and healthcare solutions together with users. It has three dimensions: 1) a platform where people can meet and discuss new care solutions, 2) living labs where solutions can be tested with users, and 3) new educational programs focused on implementing solutions. The living lab has apartments equipped with sensors to study user needs, concepts, and acceptance of new solutions. Students from various fields participate in minors to learn about digital health and intelligent environments.
The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is a non-profit international association representing over 300 certified Living Labs across Europe. Living Labs are real-life test environments where users and producers co-create innovations. ENoLL was launched in 2006 and supports various EU initiatives related to aging well, smart cities, and future internet technologies by facilitating partnerships between its member Living Labs. ENoLL is committed to the EU Active and Assisted Living Program and plans workshops and projects to promote interoperability and gather evidence on independent living solutions.
This document summarizes the process and outcomes of the 6th Wave of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). It describes how 72 proposals were submitted and evaluated by 6 teams against 20 criteria on a scale of 0-5. 46 Living Labs were ultimately selected, including 31 from EU countries and 15 non-EU members. The document provides details on the evaluation phases and typical weaknesses seen in applications. It concludes by welcoming the new members and thanking those involved in the evaluation process.
The Connected Smart Cities Network and Living Labs - Towards Horizon 2020 - K...imec.archive
The document discusses how EU Cohesion Policy supports innovation, particularly through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). It provides an overview of how over €86 billion was spent on research and innovation during 2007-2013 to build research capacity and infrastructure in all regions. For 2014-2020, there will be a thematic focus on research and innovation, ICT, and SME competitiveness to maximize impact. Regions will develop research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation to concentrate resources on competitive advantages. Synergies between Cohesion Policy and Horizon 2020 are aimed at supporting research and innovation from the idea stage to market.
Apollon-23/05/2012-9u30- Parallell session: Living Labs added value imec.archive
1) Living labs provide meeting places for research, development, and innovation where companies, researchers, specialists, teachers, students, and product users collaborate.
2) Demola is an innovation platform that combines student ideas with needs and support from project partners and customers, turning ideas into product and service demos.
3) Benefits of Demola include real market potential for projects, valuable experience for students, opportunity for students to start their own businesses, and license agreements or partnerships between students and project partners.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 11:30 - Local SME's - Innovating Across bordersimec.archive
This document outlines a methodology for setting up and operating cross-border networks of living labs to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with innovation. It describes a multi-phase process including connecting partners, planning projects, supporting experimentation, and evaluating results. A variety of methods and tools were developed and validated through pilot projects in different domains like healthcare, energy efficiency, and manufacturing. These methods and tools are accessible through an online knowledge center to facilitate cross-border collaboration between living labs.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 16:00 - Smart Open Cities and the Future Internetimec.archive
The document discusses Lisbon's efforts to become a smarter city through open innovation and citizen participation. It outlines challenges like economic issues but also opportunities from new technologies. Lisbon is promoting spaces and tools for public involvement, including participatory budgeting, living labs, open data, and co-working areas. It also supports entrepreneurship through initiatives like Lx Startup, Fab Lab, and Lx Academy. The city is investing in sustainable mobility and renewable energy programs. Overall, the goal is to engage citizens in developing solutions and make Lisbon a center for creativity, business, and green technology.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 16:00 - Smart Open Cities and the Future Internetimec.archive
The document summarizes a presentation on smart cities as innovation ecosystems sustained by the future internet. Some key points:
1) Smart cities are not yet a reality, but rather an urban development strategy and vision focused on empowering citizens and creating an "urban innovation ecology."
2) The FIREBALL project aims to bring together cities, living labs, and future internet stakeholders to explore how open innovation and user participation can support experimentation and adoption of future internet technologies.
3) Case studies of smarter cities show examples of technology districts, living lab initiatives, infrastructure development, and efforts to engage citizens. However, challenges remain around skills gaps, funding, and measuring impact.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 16:00 - Smart Open Cities and the Future Internetimec.archive
The document describes an open data app challenge organized by Open Cities. It invites developers to create apps using European open data sources that solve citizen issues. The challenge runs from February to November 2012, with a submission period in August-September and finals at the Smart City Expo in November. Top prizes include €5,000 for first place. The goal is to promote open data apps and make city living easier through collaboration across Europe.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 16:00 - Smart Open Cities and the Future Internetimec.archive
The document describes open data platforms and sensor network platforms created by the Open Cities project. It discusses how the platforms provide open data and sensor data from multiple cities through common interfaces and tools. This allows developers to more easily access and build applications using the urban data. The platforms have seen increasing use, with thousands of data sets accessed from cities across Europe. Support is provided to developers through tutorials, code samples and documentation to help them create innovative apps using the open data.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 11:30 - Local SME's - Innovating Across bordersimec.archive
This document discusses the transition of a large living lab called i-City in Flanders into a spin-off MVNO business. It summarizes that i-City started as a wireless city project with over 500 hotspots and 2000 test users. Some of the alfa community members who received support went on to work for the founding companies. The spin-off took the community-focused approach of i-City and applies it to their MVNO business, which has grown to over 120,000 users through testing with focus groups and an open API. The plans are to expand the business model to other European countries using the same approach of building, testing, and rebuilding with community input.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 09:00 - User-driven Open Innovation Ecosystemsimec.archive
The document discusses the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), which connects over 320 Living Labs across Europe and globally. Living Labs are open innovation ecosystems that engage stakeholders to address societal challenges through user-driven collaboration. ENoLL supports its members through events, projects and services. It also works to expand globally through partnerships and regional networks. The Connected Smart Cities Network was launched to facilitate collaboration between cities on developing smart city solutions using Living Labs approaches.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 09:00 - User-driven Open Innovation Ecosystemsimec.archive
1) The FIREBALL project coordinates and aligns approaches between future internet research, experimentation testbeds, and user-driven open innovation to promote innovation in smart cities.
2) Smart cities require three components: cities/communities to define challenges, living labs as generators of solutions developed with citizen involvement, and internet technologies as facilitators of communication and information processing.
3) Key FIREBALL activities include developing a smart city vision and cases, building smart city innovation ecosystems and networks, and coordinating medium to long term future internet research with short to medium term applied research and large scale experimentation.