Deze masterthesis geeft de resultaten van de implementatie van een spelgerichte benadering in de eerste graad van een secundaire school in Vlaanderen weer. Deze exploratieve studie probeerde de succesfactoren en belemmeringen weer te geven vanuit het perspectief van student-docenten. De benodigde gegevens …

Gymlessen zijn binnen het primair onderwijs (PO) vaak een ‘ondergeschoven kindje’. Deels heeft dit te maken met de interessegebieden van de groepsleerkrachten, maar er wordt ook niet of nauwelijks gekeken naar vormende vakken in de kwaliteitsbeoordeling op basisscholen. In de media, de politiek en in …

This paper describes Ivy, an office chair that represents sitting time of an office worker through growing ivy strands. The longer one sits, the more strands will grow onto the chair. By means of a qualitative interface called Ivy, we illustrate a design approach that is currently underrepresented in …

The Challenge Me intervention aimed to indirectly involve parents in a school-based intervention, by challenging primary school children to perform physical activity (PA) and nutrition-related activities with their parents. The aim of this study is to gain insight in whether this was a feasible strategy …

The Office Jungle is an experimental office environment designed to make offices more "wild". Through this demonstration and associated design vision, we make a first attempt to reflect on and to define what characterizes wildness and how it could empower people in more playful and active lifestyles, …

Walking meetings are a promising means to improve healthy behavior at work. By providing a physically active way of working, walking meetings can reduce our sitting time. Several obstacles that limit the social acceptance and wider adoption of walking meeting practice have been highlighted in previous …

In this paper, we present and discuss Ivy, a critical artifact offering a novel design perspective on interventions that aim to reduce sedentary behavior in office workers. Ivy is an interactive office chair that represents the amount of sitting time through growing ivy strands. Using the matrix of common …

Motiveren van leerlingen om een leven lang te bewegen wordt als een belangrijk doel gezien in de Lichamelijke Opvoeding, binnen en buiten de Roncalli scholengemeenschap. De zoektocht naar beoordelingsvormen die hierbij aansluiten heeft geleid tot dit interventieonderzoek. Waar met kwantitatieve en kwalitatieve …

Non-professional runners make extensive use of consumer-available wearable devices and smartphone apps to monitor training sessions, health, and physical performance. Despite the popularity of these products, they usually neglect subjective factors, such as psychosocial stress, unexpected daily physical …

Within this study the aim is to measure running workload and relevant running technique key points on varying cadence in recreational runners using a custom build sensor system ‘Nodes’. Seven participants ran on a treadmill at a self-chosen comfortable speed. Cadence was randomly guided …