The paper presents the set up of a Living Laboratory in a city of North Denmark exploring mobile support for everyday life with diabetes. Background and definitions of the living lab method is presented together with descriptions of the technical setup, applications and explorations. The living lab method was practiced over two iterations-one in 2008 and one in 2009. 17 diabetes families, 9 service providers, researchers and ICT-consultants has participated in the activities. The results present how the living lab method provides an open platform for exploring technology in naturalistic settings combined with controlled activities, technical set up, support and data collection. The meetings of users, researchers, developers, and service providers in the living lab showed how living labs are an open platform supporting interactive learning among participants on technological innovations. The living lab method as combined here with a user-driven approach is an example of how designers can carry out and gain from working with people as co-creators in design projects.

This paper summarizes a pragmatic technical approach to active networks that supports prototyping of multimedia transport protocols. One of the targets of the architecture defined is the extension of the processing capabilities of existing routers trying to keep up the forwarding performance of regular packets. This work presents practical results obtained from the development of a Java execution environment based on the design principles presented and proposes a method for the transparent deployment of multimedia relays over a source-destination path, tested in several experiments.1 This work has been funded by the IST project GCAP (Global Communication Architecture and Protocols for new QoS services over IPv6 networks) IST-1999-10 504. Further development is being supported by the Spanish MCYT under project AURAS TIC2001-1650-C02-01. 2 Disclaimer: this paper reflects the view of the authors and not necessarily the view of the referred projects.