ACTIVITIES :: ICT PSP :: ewellbeing
e-Wellbeing
e-Wellbeing is the ICT domain which reflects the lifelong care for the physical and psychological state of humans, incorporating practices for cure and care, and that focus on prevention, healthy and ambient assisted living. e-Wellbeing thus adresses e-Health as well as e-Inclusion concerns. In a fragmented domain like this, networked Living Labs can assist SMEs to get user contributions to grow into lead markets. This could happen for example in a process of pre-commercial public procurement, where LLs can be environments for providing user ideas and feedback into the procured research and development. Living Labs and Living Lab projects currently focus on issues such as monitoring, prevention and home care, and have started to network and scale up, or to transfer their innovative ICT supported services to larger national markets.
Living Labs have the potential
for filling four critical gaps in the e-Wellbeing domain:
- the gap between technology development and market implementation;
- the gap between medical (clinical) trials and regular ICT trials;
- the gap between individual e-Health and respective e-Inclusion initiatives;
- the gap between vertical/localised approaches and horizontal/global
approaches.
