Collaboration between Hong Kong and Melbourne Living Labs

The Living Lab in Gerontechnology for Age-Friendly Home (Age-Friendly Home Living Lab) at the Hong Kong Housing Society’s Elderly Resources Centre under the leadership of Dr Carmen Ng and the Swinburne Living Lab (Centre for Design Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology) led by Prof Sonja Pedell have agreed on future collaborations in the areas of co-design and research on technologies that support older adults living at home to age-in-place. Both Living Labs are members of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), and bring vast experience and complementing skills in industry and evidence-based research to this collaboration. The collaboration provides unique opportunities to trial and develop age-friendly products and services in different markets and scale solutions across continents.