Designing affordances for health-enhancing physical activity and exercise in sedentary individuals

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DAVIDS, Keith, ARAUJO, Duarte and BRYMER, Eric (2016). Designing affordances for health-enhancing physical activity and exercise in sedentary individuals. Sports Medicine, 46 (7), 933-938.

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    Abstract

    Ideas in ecological dynamics have profound implications for designing environments that offer opportunities for physical activity (PA), exercise and play in sedentary individuals. They imply how exercise scientists, health professionals, planners, designers, engineers and psychologists can collaborate in co-designing environments and playscapes that facilitate PA and exercise behaviours in different population subgroups. Here, we discuss how concepts in ecological dynamics emphasise the person-environment scale of analysis, indicating how PA environments might be (re)designed into qualitative regions of functional significance (affordances) that invite health-enhancing behaviours according to individuals' capacities and skills (effectivities).

    Item Type: Article
    Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Centre for Sports Engineering Research
    Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-016-0511-3
    Page Range: 933-938
    Depositing User: Carole Harris
    Date Deposited: 27 May 2016 11:14
    Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 00:36
    URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12326

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