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Designing Affordances for Health-Enhancing Physical Activity and Exercise in Sedentary Individuals
Eric BrymerDuarte AraújoKeith Davidssubject
medicine.medical_specialtySports medicineHealth BehaviorApplied psychologyPopulationPhysical activityPhysical Therapy Sports Therapy and RehabilitationLevel design050105 experimental psychology03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicinemedicineHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesOrthopedics and Sports MedicineAffordanceeducationExerciseSedentary lifestyleeducation.field_of_studyHealth professionals05 social sciences030229 sport sciencesFunctional significanceEnvironment DesignSedentary BehaviorPsychologydescription
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).
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-02-25 | Sports Medicine |