Learnt effects of environmental cues on transport-related walking; disrupting habits with health promotion?

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Ecological models, physical environments can be important determinants of transport-related walking. With repeated exposure to the same environment, learning of a linkage between the cues in the environment and walking should occur. Subsequent encounters with the cues can prompt the behaviour relatively automatically. No studies have experimentally tested the potential learning of this linkage between cues and behaviour. Choices between stairs and escalators in public access settings were employed to test this premise for transport-related walking.

Methods

Three studies investigated the effects of visual cues on stair/escalator choices (combined n = 115,062). In quasi-experimental, interrupted time-series designs, observers audited choices in public access sett

SUBMITTER: Eves FF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6675111 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature