The application of new technologies in promoting a healthy lifestyle: selected examples

Kimic Kinga (), Maksymiuk Gabriela () and Suchocka Marzena ()
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Suchocka Marzena: Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, Nowoursynowska 166, 02-787Warsaw, Poland

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 2019, vol. 43, issue 1, 121-130

Abstract: Modern society is fascinated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), physical laziness, isolation from nature, and a preference for staying indoors. Despite the general acceptance and understanding of the health benefits of recreation in the open air, a change is being seen in the recreational patterns of urban dwellers, as they spend less time outdoors. In order to counteract such behaviours, we can try to apply ICTs to enhance time spent outdoors. The performed study aimed to find uses of ICT solutions in designing public spaces in order to enhance and promote a healthy lifestyle. The selected examples show possible applications of ICT in promoting active recreation, e.g. mobile applications for sport activities, urban games in line with the idea of the Playable City, and urban furniture and outdoor hotspots enabling access to the Internet. The research findings proved that digitisation is not only a threat to a healthy lifestyle, but that it can also create opportunities to improve the quality of life.

Keywords: public space; green spaces; recreation; human well-being; ICT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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