This document summarizes research projects and initiatives at the Halmstad Living Lab in Sweden. The Living Lab focuses on developing technologies and services to improve quality of life, especially for elderly populations. Key projects include developing smart locks and silver technologies to support independent living. The Living Lab also studies user involvement in innovation through projects on media and health technologies. The document lists principal investigators and industry partners involved in each initiative.

1. Halmstad Li ing Lab
Living
Carina Ihlström Eriksson PhD
Eriksson,
Acting Vice-President of Halmstad
University
For the Development of Organisations, Products and Quality of Life

2. Halmstad Embedded and
Intelligent Systems Research (EIS)

3. Carina Ihlström Eriksson, Associate
Professor, Manager
Maria Åkesson, PhD
Åkesson
Jesper Svensson, PhD student
Esbjörn Ebbesson, PhD student
Lars-Olof Johansson, PhD student
,
Jan Nilsson, Assistent
Mikael Hammeltz, Assistent
Nicholas Wickström, PhD
h l k h
Magnus Hållander, PhD
Fawzi Halila, PhD
Jonas Rundqvist, PhD
Rundqvist

4. Living Lab
Living Lab - Secure at Home: funded by VINNOVA
SOCIALL: funded by Nordforsk
Wellbeing / Health / Inclusion
Secure at Home - Smart Locks: funded by VINNOVA
y
Silver Technology: funded by VINNOVA
AAL – Express2Connect: funded by VINNOVA
Media
M di
Local Newspaper 2.0 – with Engaged Readers (LoCoMedia): funded by
the Knowledge Foundation

5. Living Lab – Secure at Home
The context is ICT
services and products
aimed at supporting
and empowering
elderly people
Focus on methods
and tools for user
involvement in the
IT-innovation process
9 SMEs in the health
technology area

6. Secure at Home –
Smart Locks
2 SMEs and 1 NGO

7. Silver Technology

8. • Copenhagen Living Lab (DE)
Express2Connect (E2C) •
•
Halmstad Living Lab
Halmstad Municipality
• Waag Society (NL)
• Active Seniors Association (FI)
A i S i A i i
AAL project
• Laurea Universitet (FI)
Research and development project 2010-2013
• Öresund IT (SE)
• Forum Vi i
F Virium Helsinki (FI)
H l i ki
1. Preventing seniors’ internal experience of • Substanz (DK)
loneliness as this is strongly associated with
• Heutink (NL)
dissatisfaction with life.
• Verhalentafel
Ve h le t fel (NL)
2. Develop a new innovative solution for an emergent
EU market for “preventive social technology”,
consisting of the increasing part of elderly people
age 65+.
65+
3. Creating implementation strategies that allow the
solution a place in the service ecology of elderly
care by contributing to a stop in the predicted rise
in costs of health and long term care.

9. LoCoMedia
This project
concerns user • 7 Swedish newspapers
generated content – • Experiments (12)
creation and
i d • Interviews (36+27+20)
validation of new • Questionnaires (10.000
media services in a respondents)
Living Lab tti
Li i L b setting
• Mappings (4)

10. Contact
Carina Ihlström Eriksson
+46 703 187355
carina.ihlstrom_eriksson@hh.se
carina.ihlstrom eriksson@hh.se
halmstadlivinglab.se
halmstadlivinglab se
media-it.hh.se