{"id":6369,"date":"2009-12-01T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=6369"},"modified":"2019-02-26T15:36:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T15:36:18","slug":"lab4living-field-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/lab4living-field-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab4Living Field Lab \u2013 Promoting interdisciplinary research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lab4Living<\/a> recently hosted the first in a series\u00a0of\u00a0\u2019Field Labs\u2019\u00a0for the EPSRC<\/a>-funded \u2018Engineering for Life<\/a>\u2019 project (\u00a3800k) aimed at encouraging interdisciplinary research. This project is\u00a0led by Professor Chris Care<\/a> of the Material and Engineering Research Institute (MERI<\/a>) at Sheffield Hallam University.\u00a0The Lab4Living was proud to be chosen as the flagship exemplar of interdisciplinary research. This field lab demonstrated inter-disciplinary research in action.<\/p>\n

\"Lab4Living<\/p>\n

The field lab was based on the (\u00a3400k)\u00a0EPSRC-funded Future Bathroom<\/em><\/a> project and inspired by a \u2018Maze\u2019 and \u2018Lab Rat\u2019 theme.<\/p>\n

The Future Bathroom<\/em> project is\u00a01.5 years into its 3 year schedule. It has huge quantities of testimonial data, views, opinions, stories, ideas from elderly citizens of Sheffield recruited to the project as participants and as researchers. At the start of the project\u00a0\u2019young\u2019 researchers visited elderly people and asked them about problems they experienced in the bathroom. Meanwhile, older Sheffield residents were recruited and trained as researchers and sent out to visit their \u2018peers\u2019 within the city and ask the same questions. In comparing the data, it was clear that older researchers were able to elicit more information from their peers than the younger researchers.<\/p>\n

\"Lab4Living<\/p>\n

The Field Lab\u00a0was designed to disseminate research knowledge and raise awareness of issues on the one hand whilst on the other, gather views and opinions about those issues from a younger population. Positioning the Field Lab in the main atrium of the University targeted the students and staff of the University.<\/p>\n

\"Lab4Living<\/p>\n

As a means of collecting data for formal pieces of research, there is still much refinement needed to the technique and method. We hope, that with further\u00a0funding, we can explore this as a technique for gathering research data; almost as a substitute to the \u00a0survey and\u00a0user group. Something that can deliver responses to questions and elicit a much richer data set with the field lab context creating an atmosphere, allowing tactile experiences and interactions between respondents, feeding further insights and discussion in an open forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lab4Living recently hosted the first in a series\u00a0of\u00a0\u2019Field Labs\u2019\u00a0for the EPSRC-funded \u2018Engineering for Life\u2019 project (\u00a3800k) aimed at encouraging interdisciplinary research. This project is\u00a0led by Professor Chris Care of the Material and Engineering Research Institute (MERI) at Sheffield Hallam University.\u00a0The Lab4Living was proud to be chosen as the flagship exemplar of interdisciplinary research. 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