Leisure and human rights: the World Leisure Organization Charter for Leisure: past, present and future

Work-Leisure Relations: Leisure Orientation and the Meaning of Work

The relationship between work and leisure, with regard to various aspects of work and its meaning, was examined in two groups of people: leisure-oriented and work-oriented. Leisure-to-work spillover characterized the relations between leisure orientation and the following variables: absolute work centrality, interpersonal contacts, intrinsic orientation, obligation norm, and weekly work hours. ...

Pursuing leisure during leisure-time physical activity.

BACKGROUND While considerable attention has been given to quantifying leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) among subpopulations, less attention has focused on the perception of the experience as leisure. The current study describes the prevalence of leisure-like experiences during LTPA among college students. We describe the social contexts and activity settings that contribute to participant ...

Design for Art and Leisure

The paper is a reflection about the compelling yet difficult nature of design and evaluation of entertainment or edutainment systems. Such systems are not designed to help users perform work tasks or save time. They should encourage users to spend time and enjoy the interaction, and their ultimate mission is to engage the user and stimulate learning. The nature of this kind of systems imposes t...

Income, Leisure, and Happiness

Visualizing Leisure

This essay defines the visual approach through a review of leisure-related literature and draws insights from scholars across the social sciences. Visual leisure is the collection of several approaches to research that recognizes the relevance of vision to ways we make sense of leisure in our lives. It is not about more data or incremental advancement, but on providing a different kind of data ...