Our 90-minute workshop structure is as follows:
Session 1: Background of the Newcastle Living Lab
- An overview of the Newcastle Living Lab methodology, origins and applications (including the context of the CoSIE project)
- An interactive demonstration of the Living Lab platform using multiple views.
- Feedback and Q and A
Session 2: Introduction and Hands-on the CoSMoS modelling tool
- Origins of CoSMoS, from pen and paper to development. We explain how the tool was designed and tested with the CoSIE project partners.
- Demonstration of current use cases and examples from their application in the CoSIE project.
- Feedback and Q and A
Session 3: Introduction and overview of CoSMoS
- Demonstration of CoSMoS. Based on the above background and subsequent evolution of the Living Lab platform.
- A walk-through of the CoSMoS tool using, multiple templates, by participants to model their own environments.
- Feedback and Q and A