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Regional differences in access to the outdoors and outdoor play of Canadian children and youth during the COVID-19 outbreak

open access: yesCanadian journal of public health, 2020
To reduce the spread of COVID-19, public health authorities across the country have recommended that Canadians keep their distance, wash their hands, and stay home.
Louise de Lannoy   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Experiences of the Built Environment, Falls and Fear of Falling Outdoors among Older Adults: An Exploratory Study and Future Directions

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
Falls can have serious impacts on the health, wellbeing and daily mobilities of older adults. Falls are a leading cause of injury and death amongst older adults and outdoor falls comprise a substantial proportion of pedestrian injuries.
A. Curl, H. Fitt, M. Tomintz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

HCI Outdoors [PDF]

open access: yesExtended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018
HCI in outdoor recreation is a growing research area. While papers investigating systems in specific domains, such as biking, climbing, or skiing, are beginning to appear, the broader community is just beginning to form. The community still seems to lack a cohesive agenda for advancing our understanding of this application domain.
Michael D. Jones   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

The outdoors as a contested leisure terrain

open access: yesAnnals of Leisure Research, 2021
In this critical commentary, we propose that ‘the outdoors’ is a contested leisure terrain that is both a space for freedom, relaxation and enjoyment, and, at the same time, a site of exclusion, hierarchy and discrimination.
Katherine Dashper, Jason King
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Where are the babies? Engaging under twos with the outdoors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
There is a general concern that children are not spending enough time outdoors. The growing number of very young children in the UK and beyond who now spend time in formal day care suggest that it is important to know more about outdoor provision for ...
Kemp, N.
core  

Gap-Fillers for Wooden Artefacts Exposed Outdoors—A Review

open access: yesForests, 2021
Conservation of wooden artefacts that are exposed outdoors, mainly in open-air museums, is a very complex and difficult issue that aims to preserve both the integrity and aesthetics of valuable objects.
Magdalena Broda   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Gender and the Outdoors: An International Conversation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Over the past two to three decades in outdoor education circles, there has been a gradual swell of interest in bringing a gender lens to the examination of issues, theory and practice within the field.
Dignan, Annie   +3 more
core  

Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Time spent outdoors and sleep normality: A preliminary investigation

open access: yesPopulation Medicine, 2021
Introduction Sleep deficiency is associated with health risks, and time outdoors is related to health benefits. This study assessed time outdoors and its association with sleep normality.
Lindsey A. Wood   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Time spent outdoors through childhood and adolescence – assessed by 25‐hydroxyvitamin D concentration – and risk of myopia at 20 years

open access: yesActa ophthalmologica, 2021
To investigate the relationship between time spent outdoors, at particular ages in childhood and adolescence, and myopia status in young adulthood using serum 25‐hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentration as a biomarker of time spent outdoors.
G. Lingham   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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