Life 2.0: geographical positioning services to support independent living and social interaction of elderly people

The workshop proposed aims at reflecting on the practice of co-designing scenarios to develop digital services. The contents providing the basis to the foreseen activities regards the on-going European project Life 2.0 on the topic of the development of geographical positioning services to support independent living and social interaction of elderly people. Moving from the on field and ethnographic research results and analysis in the four partners countries, the activities of the workshop focus on creating a unique articulated scenario merging the pilots specific contributions. During the first day the participants deal with the theme of creating the project scenario with the project stakeholders participation, moving from the involvement of the users since the first phases of the design process. In the second day the business framework of the scenario is collectively defined and discussed using the business model canvas tool [4]. The workshop will elicit specific results in terms of requirements for the digital platform development and knowledge related to the role of design in processes of co-creation.