Bridging Borders - Exploring Cross-Cultural End-User differences in Living Lab Research and designing consensus recommendations for the future
TIME
15:45 – 17:15
TRACKS
TRACK 3: Living Labs for Inclusive Soci(et)al Engagement
ORGANISER
LiCaLab, Leen Broeckx
DESCRIPTION
In this workshop we will delve into the cultural differences in living lab research. Let’s gain insights on how gender, age, ethnic background, can impact contributing in living lab activities, based on your experience as a facilitator. We invite you to contribute to consensus recommendations on how to plan and execute living lab research in order to maximize participant openness across borders.
Agenda
- Introduction (15 min)
Introduction and food for thought from previous research with short presentation + explain approach of session, plenary.
- Co-creation (60 min total) – Break up groups
- Exercise 1: map own experiences and observations; in teams of 5-8 people, using Empathy Map (15 min)
- Exercise 2: Brainstorm and idea generation to overcome potential inhibitors (15 min)
- Exercise 3: card set with recommendations to check for potential extensions or redundancies (15 min)
- Exercise 4: ranking recommendations individually (Wooclap) and plenary discussion (15 min)
- Wrap-up (15 min)
Discussion and take aways, plenary.
SPEAKER BIOS
Leen Broeckx
Panel Manager LiCalab/Thomas More University of Applied Sciences
Leen Broeckx
Panel Manager LiCalab/Thomas More University of Applied SciencesLeen holds a Master’s degree in Communication Science and a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies. In 2013, Leen joined the LiCalab team at Thomas More University of Applied Sciences as panel manager. Her role within the team is to manage and guide the panel of more than 350 citizens, care organisations and caregivers. She supervises the Living Lab activities: from recruitment, scenario writing, guiding group discussions and real-life tests through the processing the results. Leen champions Human Centered Design and she strongly believes in the participatory approach to healthcare innovation.
Nele De Witte
Senior Researcher Centre of expertise Care and Well-being, LiCaLab/Thomas More University of Applied Sciences
Nele De Witte
Senior Researcher Centre of expertise Care and Well-being, LiCaLab/Thomas More University of Applied SciencesNele A.J. De Witte works at the Centre of expertise Care and Well-being at Thomas More University of Applied Sciences. She holds a PhD in Psychology and has over 10 years of research experience, mostly in practice-oriented research. She is the scientific coordinator of LiCalab Living and Care lab. At LiCalab, dr. De Witte is committed to the scientific valorization of living lab methodologies and supports the design of user research.
Annouck De Cat
Panel Manager LiCalab/Thomas More University of Applied Sciences
Annouck De Cat
Panel Manager LiCalab/Thomas More University of Applied SciencesAnnouck De Cat holds a master’s degree in Rehabilitation Sciences and physiotherapy and a Master’s degree in Health care Management and Policy. She joined the LiCalab team in early 2023 as panel manager. She is passionate about design thinking, innovation, and the living lab approach. Her experience in health care, education and business analysis is an asset in managing the LiCalab panel database and in setting up living lab activities. Together with the team, she submits ethical applications for studies, drafts protocols, does recruitment for activities and conducts co-creation sessions, real life testing, human factor studies and surveys. Finally, she engages in reporting on these activities.
Vicky Van der Auwera
Research manager and co-founder of LiCaLab, Thomas More University of Applied Sciences
Vicky Van der Auwera
Research manager and co-founder of LiCaLab, Thomas More University of Applied SciencesVicky holds a Master’s degree in Engineering Sciences from Brussels University Belgium, where she graduated as civil mechanical-electrical engineer. She worked for 14 years in private sector in the area of mechanical engineering as Research Manager and Project manager, where she built up experience and knowledge of machine construction, mechatronics, opto-mechanical measurements, semiconductor measurements. Since 2010 she works for Thomas More University of Applied Sciences in the unit Research. She is one of the team members that started up LiCalab in 2012 (www.licalab.be/en ), in close collaboration with the City of Turnhout. At LiCalab she is responsible for the operational management of the team and she leads EU-projects as well as private assignments.