TY - JOUR T1 - Exploring Participation Needs and Motivational Requirements When Engaging Older Adults in an Emerging Living Lab JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tiziana C. Callari A1 - Louise Moody A1 - Janet Saunders A1 - Gill Ward A1 - Nikki Holliday A1 - Julie Woodley KW - family views KW - Living lab KW - motivation to participate KW - older adults KW - research participation KW - user expectations KW - user needs AB - There is a growing body of literature regarding living labs, which are seen as an effective way to develop and evaluate research for novel products and services with the actual end users. With growth in the living labs model, there is an increasing need for guidelines to steer and support the set-up and maintenance of initiatives, and to facilitate relationships and engagement with stakeholders and users in this context. This study seeks to address this need, in part, by exploring the needs, expectations, and motivations that older adults have in relation to research participation in an emerging living lab. This work is part of a wider research project to develop an integrated framework to guide emerging living labs. Eight semi-structured interviews were undertaken with six residents and two family members from two residential settings for older adults that were collaborating to establish a living lab environment. A concept-driven coding frame supported the coding and analysis of the interview transcripts. The results provide insights in relation to participant motivation to take part in research, and they identify some issues of concern for participants, both residents and family members, related to living lab initiatives. As a first step in developing a successful living lab culture of collaborative research, this study has demonstrated that open discussion with residents and their families should continue to guide processes and research design as the emerging living lab initiative continues. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 9 UR - https://timreview.ca/article/1223 IS - 3 U1 - Coventry University Tiziana C. Callari is a Human Factors Researcher at Coventry University in England. She has an interest in the organizational and cognitive processes of living and working environments. Within the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University, she is involved in projects that seek to improve the quality of life/work of targeted users by incorporating ergonomics principles in the design of products, services, and processes. Methodologically, she has a deep knowledge of the use of qualitative research strategy approaches. U2 - Coventry University Louise Moody is Professor of Health Design and Human Factors in the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University in England. Her research is focused on the development of products, interventions, and services to benefit health and wellbeing. With a background in Psychology and Human Factors, she employs a range of research methods as well as art-based approaches to ensure that new products, systems, services, and interventions are functional as well as being desirable and acceptable to end users and stakeholders. U3 - Coventry University Janet Saunders is a specialist in user research and user centred design, with extensive experience in e-commerce and several projects as a Research Assistant with Coventry University in England. Her background includes qualitative research for user needs and digital information design, such as usability testing, co-creation, focus groups, and interviews, with an additional interest in diverse groups such as people with disabilities, people with learning difficulties, and older people. U4 - Royal College of Occupational Therapists Gillian Ward is a Visiting Professor at Coventry University in England. Her research interests include the design and user experience of assistive and digital health technologies. She is the Research and Development Manager at the Royal College of Occupational Therapists. U5 - Coventry University Nikki Holliday is a Researcher in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Coventry University in England, where she specializes in informing assisted living technology design via multi-stakeholder involvement, using techniques such as co-creation, co-production, usability studies, focus groups and interviews, and rapid prototyping. She is experienced in exploring health and wellbeing technology perceptions and design with service users, carers, and a wide range of health and social care staff, and running user-focused co-creation activities and projects. ER -