Developing a Health and Wellbeing Platform in a Living Lab Setting: An Action Design Research Study

Developing a Health and Wellbeing Platform in a Living Lab Setting: An Action Design Research Study

Broers, W.J.W.
De Reuver, G.A.
Florez Atehuortua, L.
Guldemond, N.A.

Technology, Policy and Management

Engineering, Systems and Services

2015-05-20

The world’s population is rapidly aging, which affects healthcare budgets, resources, pensions and social security systems. Although most older adults prefer to live independently in their own home as long as possible, smart living solutions to support elderly people at home did not reach mass adoption, yet. To support people age-in-place a Living Lab is established in one of the metropolitan areas in the Netherlands. The main goal of the Living Lab is to develop an online health and wellbeing platform that matches service providers, caretakers and users and to implement that platform in one particular city district. In this paper we describe the narrative of the action design research process that will give researchers insight how to deal with complex multistakeholder design projects as well as cooperation issues to develop an artifact in a real-life setting.

aging-in-place
platform
action design research
smart living

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DESRIST 2015: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, Dublin, Ireland, 20-22 May 2015

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