title: Designing Affordances for Health-Enhancing Physical Activity and Exercise in Sedentary Individuals.
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).
authors.affiliation: Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.|FiDi Program, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Davids
authors.affiliation: CIPER, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
authors.forename: Duarte
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Araújo
authors.affiliation: School of Sport Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, LS16 5LF, UK. e.brymer@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brymer
mesh_terms: D004779:Environment Design; D015444:Exercise; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D057185:Sedentary Behavior