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Starting in 2009, the Institute for Information Industry (III) began implementing empirical Living Lab applications in different locations throughout the Minsheng Community, Songshan District that targeted different user groups. These applications included the Future Classroom and Green Life Ecological Tourguide, which targeted junior high school students; ComCare, which targeted the elderly residents of the community; In-Snergy, which targeted large buildings; and inMedia_Kiosks, which targeted the general public. There are three main contributions to this study. First, it provides complete solution to technological service enterprises. Secondly, the Living Lab improves partnership relations with local residents. Thirdly, it enables Taiwan to establish close links and conduct knowledge exchange with Living Lab projects around the world

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Manual material handling (MMH) tasks can pose risks of musculoskeletal disorders for workers, which makes posture training programs essential. The ultimate goal of this research was to design and evaluate an augmented reality (AR) based training platform, namely the virtual instructor application (VIA). Specifically, the usability problems revealed from the preliminary version (VIA-1) were addressed and enhanced features were implemented in the current version (VIA-2). The usability of VIA-2 was assessed by ten individuals with experience of MMH. Participants explored VIA-2 while performing a series of predefined tasks. A usability questionnaire was administered, and a brief interview was conducted. Results showed that VIA-2 had increased usability compared to VIA-1. While some visual content display issues occurred, a future minor refurnish can address these problems. Finally, the iterative design and evaluation scheme can be applied to the future design of AR-based training programs and evaluation protocols.