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- Urban & Rural Living Lab (Smart cities & regions)
- Living Lab as a service (Company, SME/Start-up)
- Living testbed (Technology testing, Tech transfer)
In 2010, this space was founded as the Smart House Living Lab, specialized in home automation, ambient intelligence and scenarios of everyday life. After 10 years of learning and research and innovation projects, 2020 was the beginning of a new stage: Lifespace. With new infrastructures, technologies and services, the possibilities in terms of innovation and experimentation go far beyond a smart home.
Our goal is to offer an ecosystem where to combine knowledge, actors and technologies for the creation and development of innovative and personalized solutions in health, quality of life and social well-being: the digital transformation of healthcare services, personalized medicine, active and healthy ageing, etc.
A network of more than 120 public and private sector actors in the health and social care field to promote a culture of excellence, collaboration and applied research. Our ecosystem works from the perspective of the quintuple helix: public agencies and governments, private companies and suppliers, academia and civil society working together for sustainable development.
We are part of:
Inspirational driver: The power of technology and innovation to improve health and quality of life.
VISION: The digitization of healthcare, harvest the power of technology and data for patient care, disease prevention and personalized treatments.
MISSION: Provide infrastructure and services to help redesign healthcare systems and reshape traditional models of health and social care through technological innovation and research to build the future of health.
GOALS:
Develop, test and launch new products and services that bring added value to society as a whole.
→ Previous Projects:
Better@Home was developed and successfully implemented at the Infanta Leonor Hospital in Madrid in collaboration with LifeSpace.
→ Running/Ongoing Projects:
LifeSpace has an area of over 150 m², it features modern control technology, monitoring and regulation of the environment, where ideas are born, developed and the most cutting-edge services are tested in the e-inclusion (AAL) and e-health (P-Health).
It consists of 3 distinct areas:
User area: approximately 100 m² where we can find not only a digital home, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living room, but an open space where any scenario required can be simulated, scenarios such as an operating room or an office, where the user can interact with the environment through natural speech, touch screens, etc.
The Control room: which has a unique view of the user through a one-way mirror and holds the communication systems with high bandwidth user area and the Internet and server technologies, environmental monitoring and interaction designed so they are easily expandable and scalable in the future.
Area of Interaction in Virtual Reality: used for studying both, the user interaction with devices prior to prototyping in reality and for training them in their use.
Areas of work: Health & Wellbeing, Social Innovation, Artificial Intelligence.
Subsections: Active & Healthy Ageing, Accessible User Interface Design & Usability, Digital Platforms, Ambient intelligence & Domotics, Robotics.
Engineering: Biomedical engineering, computer and systems engineering, specializations in data analytics and cybersecurity
Social Sciences: Sociology and social communication
Design: UI/UX, web, 3D, graphic and multimedia
LifeSpace (UPM infrastructure) has access to:
→ Networking and capacity building: Capacity building; Expert opinion, and advisory services; Innovation network orchestration; Stakeholder (and partner) analysis and mapping.
→ Co-creation: Co-creation session; Expert opinion, and advisory services; Stakeholder (and partner) analysis and mapping.
→ Testing and validation: Concept and proof-of-concept tests – concept feasibility study; Expert opinion, and advisory services; Idea selection and testing; Impact assessment and validation test; Large-scale real-life testing and piloting.
Visit our Living Lab Harmonisation Wiki Page for detailed descriptions of the Research & Development services that Living Labs offer.
→ Activity Tracking/Monitoring
→ Assisting Technology
→ Biometrics: heart rate (FitBit, garmin)
→ Cognitive function: Cognitive training (VR Training games, Cogwatch system)
→ Environment/Context
→ Physiological monitoring: Weight BMI (withings smart scale)
→ Custom made devices
Visit our Living Lab Harmonisation Wiki Page for more details regarding Living Lab technologies and devices.
→ Policy Makers: Studying the impact of new service models or new collaboration models in healthcare, designing or improving policies, gathering requirements for improving health and wellbeing of citizens, co-creation of research methodologies for policy making.
→ Computer/Technology Scientists: Developing systems/tools/ technologies, testing and evaluating an ICT tool, prototype and real-life testing, computer vision & AI, Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality, Cybersecurity
→ Experts in UX research and assessment: Developing the process for user experience design (UXD, UED, or XD) supporting user behaviour through usability, usefulness, and desirability provided in the interaction with a product or service, addressing all aspects as perceived by users with a focus on the quality of the user experience. Studying and experimenting the best practices for UI/UX and evaluating user’s experience in different situations and while using different tools
→ Citizen Scientists / users as co-researchers: User empowerment, training, design, analysis and implementation of strategies and methodologies for user engagement and for raising awareness and generating citizen participation
→ Biomedical researchers: Studying biochemical and physiological functions, investigating how the human body works with the aim of finding new ways to improve health. Biomedical engineering knowledge (Home hospitalization, Transitional Care, Multifunctional interaction), as well as digital biomarkers analysis (e.g., for cognitive state)