Lifestyles influence (mental) health and contribute to health quality and opportunities in life. These behaviours are closely linked to our living environment, determined by personal, socioeconomic, work, housing and other living circumstances. Despite considerable technological advancements, sustainable adoption of healthy lifestyles is challenging for vulnerable people, often showing poor health literacy and an accumulation of lifestyle and environmental risk factors. This leads to unacceptable and unethical health and socioeconomic inequalities. Our solution is to improve the adoption and sustainable adherence of healthy lifestyles by young vulnerable families in deprived neighbourhoods through “Our Smart Family Buddy” intervention. This Interactive Digital Buddy platform called ID-Buddy operates by an App and robot (Avatar) for human and environmental interactions and fosters health literacy, healthy lifestyles and reduces the impact of environmental risks. By operating as user-friendly eHealth solution, ID-Buddy is easily accessible to its target group. We will develop ID-Buddy by first mapping existing eHealth functionalities and implementation strategies for their applicability. Through field lab methodology, including co-creation and co-design in societal learning communities, functionalities fitting best with user-needs will be selected and implemented into ID-Buddy. The prototype will be further optimized and personalized using Artificial Intelligence strategies. Finally, we will test ID-Buddy for its usability, (cost-)effectiveness and (inter)operability. By the delivery of the evidence-based digital preventive ID-Buddy intervention, we will contribute to the structural and sustainable improvement of health equality for vulnerable citizens and their families. This will have a positive impact on overall well-being and promotes their societal opportunities.

Binnen een fieldlab experimenteren kennisinstellingen, bedrijven en andere regionale organisaties met nieuwe oplossingsrichtingen voor maatschappelijke problemen. De innovaties die zo ontwikkeld worden blijken echter vaak moeilijk schaalbaar waardoor de impact op het maatschappelijke verdienvermogen nog moeilijk aan te tonen is. In het Fieldlab@Scale project doet ons interdisciplinair consortium onderzoek naar het opschalen van missie-gedreven innovaties door fieldlabs in verschillende domeinen: smart industry, gezondheidszorg, landbouw en infrastructuur. Samen met beleidsmakers, regionale netwerkorganisaties, fieldlabs en hun achterliggende organisaties brengen wij de mechanismen voor het gezamenlijk experimenteren in kaart en ontwikkelen op basis van deze inzichten een instrumentarium en opleidingsprogramma voor fieldlabs.

This project concerns a consortium between TU Delft (M&O group), Vrije Universiteit (KIN Group), Philips Design, and De Hartstichting for the purpose of developing smart cardiology solutions. The advent of affordable sensor and connectivity technologies can fuel developing “smart solutions” to improve the wellbeing of cardiac patients (e.g., smart devices can monitor patient behaviors and support them to change unhealthy behavior). However, most organizations struggle to initiate multi-party collaborations that are needed for developing such smart solutions. The Creative Industries are known for facilitating cross-over collaborations, but we currently lack a framework for initiating sustainable multi-party collaborations. The consortium will set up such collaborations and investigate these from a value flow and data-driven business model perspective. During workshops in the TU Delft Cardio Lab, the involved parties will integrate their knowledge by iteratively ideating and testing smart cardiology solutions. The lab will therefore become the seedbed for joint ‘design experiments’ executed by the consortium and potential other parties. This project will yield the following results: • Knowledge sharing workshops, resulting in the identification of complementarities between the parties; • Design experiments for exploring potential value flows and new business models to facilitate initiating collaborative innovation between relevant parties; • The development of a tentative framework for initiating multi-party collaborations in a designerly way; • A grant proposal for further developing and testing the tentative framework. We will disseminate these results to a broader community of healthcare and creative professionals through practitioner- and researcher-oriented workshops.

This project will set up a consortium to share experiences and expertise on organizing cross-over collaborations, involving collaborations between organizations from different sectors including the creative industries. The aim of this consortium is to facilitate long-term public-private collaboration in the creative industries to share knowledge around the challenges of cross-over creativity, to develop a joint research proposal (EU/NWO), and organize a symposium to disseminate the consortiums insights to a broader audience of public and private organizations. Since there is a widespread belief that such cross-overs from the creative industries to organizations from different sectors can bring renewal and innovation to the Dutch economy, sharing experience and expertise on cross-over collaboration is important. Yet, starting up cross-overs between heterogeneous organizations is very challenging. To this end, the consortium aims to share and develop knowledge on how to organize successful cross-over collaborations. The KIN Research group at the VU University (hereafter simply KIN Group) will collaborate with Pakhuis de Zwijger and the InnovationFactory to build a knowledge sharing consortium through a series of co-creation meetings around the challenges of organizing successful cross-over collaborations in the Netherlands. By developing a joint research proposal, we will secure a long-term commitment of the consortium partners to develop knowledge on cross-over creativity (beyond the time scope of this project). This project ends with a joint symposium that disseminates insights developed by the consortium to a broad business audience to create awareness of the potential of cross-over collaborations for developing a creative edge.

Grand societal challenges, for example related to health, transport, environment, and inequality, require crossover collaboration to develop solutions. Lately, the rise of digital innovations provides promising solutions to respond to these challenges. Such digital innovations require heterogeneous partners from different disciplines and industries to collaborate, for instance independent fashion designers and institutionalized energy corporations, technology and arts, or independent creative actors and large medical organizations. While insight from existing research on collaborations is useful, current crossover collaborations are radically different due to the specific characteristics of digital innovation. This research aims to develop (1) improved understanding of how brokers involve and engage heterogeneous partners (connecting), (2) new approaches of design thinking that are required to create crossover digitized products and services (creating), and (3) insights on how coordination leads to the generation of new business models for crossover digital innovation (coordinating). We use a practice-based, theory development approach that enables revealing the micro-processes of collaboration between heterogeneous partners and interrelating digital technologies. Our research contributes to academic and practical insights on crossover digital innovation initiatives as well as the implications of the emergence of digital innovations for the creative industry and society at large. The interdisciplinary research combines our expertise on ?design for business?, ?collaborative innovation? and ?knowledge management and information technology?. By means of teaching, publications, regular knowledge sharing workshops among our seven industry partners and a yearly international summerschool, we will guarantee valorization and engage an international community of practitioners and academics.