Homes are increasingly being built as sensor-laden living environments to test the
performance of novel technologies in interaction with real people. When people's homes are …

Living labs are new spaces of innovation where citizens provide the engine for validating
and creating new ideas, developed as part of the userdriven trend in innovation. They are …

Living labs are interdisciplinary and participatory initiatives aimed at bringing research
closer to practice by involving stakeholders in all stages of research. Living labs align with …

Today, there is a broad understanding that new research methods are needed to achieve
large-scale societal change. Across many sectors, there is a growing interest in …

Throughout this book we have considered whether field experiments offer the best way
forward for social scientific research. This question has been asked from multiple …

Systemic and transformative change is needed to address the sustainability issues of our
time, and there is a growing consensus that this requires real-life experimentation involving …

When ethicists go to the laboratory they move 'upstream'in the development of science and
technologies. This move is often justified by two arguments. The first one hinges on ethics' …

The sustainability transitions required to address the climate crisis cannot be achieved by
technology alone; radical lifestyle changes are needed. To contribute to meeting this critical …

Despite having been revised and criticised over the years, the Declaration of Helsinki
remains one of the most important and internationally known ethics codes worldwide. Yet we …

Living Labs form a hugely popular tool to study technology, services, applications, and users
in living-like environments. At their best, Living Labs provide settings in which users can …