Oulu Urban Living Labs – OULLabs
http://www.oullabs.fi/
1. Implementation procedure
2. Implementation's characteristics
The OULLabs implementation is an application designed by the University of Oulu. The project’s main partner is the City of Oulu.
The project aim at creating a space for the exchange of opinions and experience, a testing environment for products and services that producers are planning to introduce to the market. The city’s authorities participated in the implementation of the project. Such initiatives are meant to enhance the development of local markets, providing support for entrepreneurs and, as a result, contributing to the implementation of the strategy for the economic development and promotion of innovativeness within the region.
The project is targetted at entrepreneurs, yet it is based on the cooperation with private users. For each tested product a separate testing environment is created within the application. Members of testing groups are recruited and support on the part of experts is provided. Private persons, following the registration in the service, join the chosen testing group. The next evaluation stages are performed according to a scenario adjusted to the needs of a particular service user (tests, discussion groups, polls, interviews, etc.). Logged-in users have access to all the currently held and already completed campaigns.
The project’s website features short descriptions of the conducted campaigns, including the specifications of the product/service that was the subject of the campaign, the objective, the realisation measures and means, as well as the final outcomes.
The service is not promoted on social networking sites. But it is possible for users to access the service through other Internet application (Facebook, Google +). The users of the latter can share their activities in the Oullabs service with the use of the embedded plug-inns.
3. Detailed description categories
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| A communication - an indication of all the media and dissemination |
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| Is the connection encrypted? |
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4. Service's/Application's integration with social networking sites
| As for: | 9.02.2015 |
| The project hasn't its profiles on networking sites: |
5. Screen gallery
Pages of discussion groups and on-site testing groups within the OULLabs service – access requires logging in to a user’s account <<Podstrony grup dyskusyjnych i grup testujących w ramach OULLabs – dostęp po zalogowaniu do konta użytkownika >>
Pages of discussion groups and on-site testing groups within the OULLabs service – access requires logging in to a user’s account <<Podstrony grup dyskusyjnych i grup testujących w ramach OULLabs – dostęp po zalogowaniu do konta użytkownika >>
