Play Knows No Age survey

Hi potential survey participate,

We are currently doing our honours year at Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of Design. For one of our subjects we are investigating play and we would love for you to help us out by filling in some or all of this survey by Tuesday the 27th of April. Thank you for your time.

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Project Title: Play knows no age.
Investigators: Melissa Beel, Melissa Chubb, Chloe Dam & Justine Fotia

As students exploring the notion of play throughout the stages of our lifespan, we propose to conduct a survey to members of the public in a sample demographic of Australian women aged between 45 and 55 years. Having found a stigma attached to play in the later years of adulthood, we aim to explore attitudes towards play at this age, referencing details of their lifestyle and leisure activities, and opinions on issues such as health. By completing and returning the following questionnaire you will be allowing us to use this information on our potential target market in the development of our Honours research and our proposed design outcome. Thank you for your time, it is greatly appreciated.


Please click on this link to participate in our survey...
http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?survey_ID=KHLLOO_851ed46e&UID=1931114094

Welcome!

Welcome to the 'Play Knows No Age' blog!

With a multitude of definitions and theories on play, one fact cannot be denied; play must have a purpose it cannot just be. As humans we are genetically hardwired to engage in play, using it as a tool to adapt to ‘new social interactions’ and a method of maintaining physical, emotional and mental well being. Play helps assist our connection and understanding of identity, of ourselves, of others and of the world around us. Therefore it can be assumed that play is essential and should not be naively subjected to the stigma that it belongs purely to the realm of childhood.

We have looked at Erikson's eight stages of human development as a way of exploring the role of play. The findings of this research have been displayed in a poster attached to this blog. Now we aim to further explore the role of play within adulthood, specifically people aged between 45 and 60 years, and we'd love your input! We will be adding questions soon, so please help us out with your particularly ideas on play. Here is a teaser...


What is your definition of play? Is play relevant to your life?