eprintid: 10161501 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/16/15/01 datestamp: 2022-12-08 12:27:17 lastmod: 2022-12-08 12:27:17 status_changed: 2022-12-08 12:27:17 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Nasri, Maedeh creators_name: Tsou, Yung-Ting creators_name: Koutamanis, Alexander creators_name: Baratchi, Mitra creators_name: Giest, Sarah creators_name: Reidsma, Dennis creators_name: Rieffe, Carolien title: A Novel Data-driven Approach to Examine Children's Movements and Social Behaviour in Schoolyard Environments ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J81 keywords: Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Pediatrics, Children, Affordances, Social behaviour, Schoolyard design, PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY, AUTISM, IMPACT, STUDENTS, PLAY, RESOURCES, ATTENTION, ACCURACY, STRESS, RECESS note: Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). abstract: Social participation at schoolyards is crucial for children’s development. Yet, schoolyard environments contain features that can hinder children’s social participation. In this paper, we empirically examine schoolyards to identify existing obstacles. Traditionally, this type of study requires huge amounts of detailed information about children in a given environment. Collecting such data is exceedingly difficult and expensive. In this study, we present a novel sensor data-driven approach for gathering this information and examining the effect of schoolyard environments on children's behaviours in light of schoolyard affordances and individual effectivities. Sensor data is collected from 150 children at two primary schools, using location trackers, proximity tags, and Multi-Motion receivers to measure locations, face-to-face contacts, and activities. Results show strong potential for this data-driven approach, as it allows collecting data from individuals and their interactions with schoolyard environments, examining the triad of physical, social, and cultural affordances in schoolyards, and identifying factors that significantly impact children's behaviours. Based on this approach, we further obtain better knowledge on the impact of these factors and identify limitations in schoolyard designs, which can inform schools, designers, and policymakers about current problems and practical solutions. date: 2022-08-01 date_type: published publisher: MDPI official_url: https://doi.org/10.3390/children9081177 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1973347 doi: 10.3390/children9081177 medium: Electronic pii: children9081177 lyricists_name: Rieffe, Catharina lyricists_id: CRIEF26 actors_name: Rieffe, Catharina actors_id: CRIEF26 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: AUT.17.007 [Dutch Research Council (NWO)]; BC2019-1 [Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for BOLD Cities] full_text_status: public publication: Children volume: 9 number: 8 article_number: 1177 pages: 18 event_location: Switzerland citation: Nasri, Maedeh; Tsou, Yung-Ting; Koutamanis, Alexander; Baratchi, Mitra; Giest, Sarah; Reidsma, Dennis; Rieffe, Carolien; (2022) A Novel Data-driven Approach to Examine Children's Movements and Social Behaviour in Schoolyard Environments. Children , 9 (8) , Article 1177. 10.3390/children9081177 <https://doi.org/10.3390/children9081177>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10161501/1/Nasri_etal_2022_Children_Data-driven.pdf