Announcing the first Summer School on “Open Innovation and User experience Design & Assessment” which will take place on 10-14 September 2012 at the Istituto Europeo di Design, Milan, Italy

The Summer School is supported by the ELLIOT (Experiential Living Lab for the Internet of Things) , by the IDeALL (integrating Design for ALL in Living Labs) project and by The European Institute of Design.
IDeALL Summer School is exploring the following themes:
§ - Service design innovation: Integrating design methodologies within Living Labs’ environments, with the main objective to identify and share methodologies based on user-centred approaches used in Design for All and in Living Labs;
§ - User experience design: designing and assessing the experience of the users as part of the design process and product development life cycle;
§ - Shaping the UX context elements for completing the design and implementation scenario for User Experience.

The Summer School is designed to be a full immersive, interactive experience and the number of participants is limited to 50 participants on a first come first serve basis. Visit http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/Summer_School_UX_Design_%26_Assessment