Smart cities and innovative governance systems: a reflection on urban living labs and action research

The role of Urban Living Labs in a Smart City

In a rapidly changing socio-technical environment cities are increasingly seen as main drivers for change. Against this backdrop, this paper studies the emerging Urban Living Lab and Smart City concepts from a project based perspective, by assessing a series of five Smart City initiatives within one local city ecosystem. A conceptual and analytical framework is used to analyse the architecture,...

Innovative Governance of Large Urban Systems ( IGLUS )

An Action Research Approach to Rural Living Labs Innovation

This paper examines the potential of the Living labs concept as change catalyst for rural and regional development. An action research approach is proposed as a basis for organising innovation in Living labs. The approach distinguishes between strategic and operational Living labs activities. We discuss how software development as spiral process and how architecture framework development can be...

a comparison of teachers and supervisors, with respect to teacher efficacy and reflection

supervisors play an undeniable role in training teachers, before starting their professional experience by preparing them, at the initial years of their teaching by checking their work within the proper framework, and later on during their teaching by assessing their progress. but surprisingly, exploring their attributes, professional demands, and qualifications has remained a neglected theme i...

Research-Centres Centred Living Labs

Developing means to conduct shared evaluation in the user modelling, adaptation and personalization (UMAP) space is inherently difficult. Not least because of privacy concerns and individual differences in behaviours between users of systems. In this paper we propose a research-centre centred living labs approach as one potential way to overcome these difficulties and to allow for shared task g...