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Indoor and outdoor leisure environments are increasingly understood to be mutually constituted through merged relationships but there has been less focus on the actual forms that hybridisation can take. This paper provides an analysis of forms of hybridisation through time by focusing on the socio‐technical configurations through which three leisur...
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... vertical wind tunnel technology used by iFLY is now standardised across their locations. Four giant fans pump 1.7 million cubic feet of air around a building system reaching speeds of up to 170 mph, allowing a person to "float" safely in a chamber (Figure 1). This "closed recirculating design loop" system with internal air conditioning was specifically introduced in 2004 in order to be able to locate facilities in all climate zones (ISS, 2015). ...
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... In the course of the research carried out, we found that the factors involved are both technical and human in nature, in a close connection constituting the typical architecture of an e-Learning system [1]. Their disparate analysis is difficult to achieve, the interdependence of the technical and human factors involved has determined us to start from the assumption that the identified factors comply with the requirements of a socio-technical system [2]. A socio-technical system often describes a "thing" (an interconnected mixture based on human systems, technology and their environment) [3]. ...
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