Designing Affordances for Health-Enhancing Physical Activity and Exercise in Sedentary Individuals

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 collabora...

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Published inSports medicine (Auckland) Vol. 46; no. 7; pp. 933 - 938
Main Authors Davids, Keith, Araújo, Duarte, Brymer, Eric
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 01.07.2016
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Behavior
Brain research
Current Opinion
Design
Designers
Designing environments to enhance physical and psychological benefits of physical activity: A multi-disciplinary perspective
Environment Design
Exercise
Funding
Health Behavior
Health promotion
Humans
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Older people
Physical fitness
Sedentary Lifestyle
Sports Medicine
Studies
Visual artists
Physical Activity Environment
Exercise Scientist
Physical Activity
Ecological Dynamic
Sedentary Behaviour
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Summary: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).
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ISSN:0112-1642
1179-2035
DOI:10.1007/s40279-016-0511-3