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Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual EventThe Healthy Populations Institute (HPI) is thrilled to host a presentation from Cornell professor Dr. Janet Loebach in support of HPI’s Flagship Project “Designing Supportive Environments for Chronic Disease Prevention.”
Title: Levering behaviour mapping to capture children’s play behaviours and evaluate outdoor playspace design
Short Description: One key to developing supportive play environments for children is understanding how young people use and interact with their physical environments, and how the design and conditions of these settings scaffold or limit play activities. Behaviour mapping, a systematic field observational technique, is a useful method for examining children’s in-situ behaviours; it is one of the few research tools available which can simultaneously capture observed behaviours as well information about the environmental location and context where the behaviour takes place. This presentation will begin with an overview of the role of play and play environments in the health and development of children and the value of naturalistic observation for capturing children’s play activities and the environmental conditions which support them. The remainder of the talk will outline behaviour mapping approaches, its use in environmental behaviour research to date, and the potential for integrating behaviour mapping with other research tools.
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Cornell Human Ecology, Human Ecology Design and Environmental Analysis [DO NOT USE deprecated 1/23/23]
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Dr. Janet Loebach
Design + Environmental Analysis, Healthy Populations Institute
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