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Adm_BlackCat
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 		U.S. Intelligence agencies want you...
...to help design ARGs!

Wired's Danger Room sums it up.
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The project, which goes by the name UAREHERE, "may provide capabilities that allow for high-quality, externally valid social, behavioral and psychological research in near-real world contexts,"

Official request for participants.

Very interesting possibilities!
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catherwood
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 		I see they use the phrase "Alternate Reality Environments" and go on to specify an ARG as being just one example of such a thing. However, I don't see them give any other examples of other "things" which might qualify as an ARE. Then they switch to using the blended 'ARE/ARG' label.
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AREs create an "alternate" reality out of the real world by using different media (e.g. print, cell phones, websites, augmented reality, etc.), to superimpose fictional narratives on physical reality.

While AREs are constructed and communicated through multi-media, they involve having people accomplish tasks or interact with others using live actions in the physical world. In this way, research using AREs would presumably be different from research in "virtual worlds" (where tasks/interactions are entirely online), observational research (which may lack experimental control to test specific variables) and laboratory research (which may require subjects to come to a testing site that is clearly distinct from their daily experience of the world).


btw, I didn't realize those were links in the post above, at first.
http://www.iarpa.gov/RFI/rfi_uarehere.html
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/iarpa-alternate-reality-games/

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cyng
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 		am i seriously the only person who they contacted by email???

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