Experiences with the alternate reality kit: an example of the tension between literalism and magic

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall B. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Alternate Reality

Home Free

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Residential Relocation ◽  
Criminal Opportunities ◽  
Alternate Reality ◽  
Desistance From Crime ◽  
Residential Change ◽  
Rare Opportunity

This book is about building credible science to address the challenge of criminal recidivism. It does so by drawing upon a unique natural experiment that presented an opportunity to witness an alternate reality. More than 625,000 individuals are released from prison in the United States each year, and roughly half of these individuals will be back in prison within just three years. A likely contributor to the churning of the same individuals in and out of prison is the fact that many released prisoners return home to the same environment with the same criminal opportunities and criminal peers that proved so detrimental to their behavior prior to incarceration. This study uses Hurricane Katrina as a natural experiment for examining the question of whether residential relocation away from an old neighborhood can lead to desistance from crime. Many prisoners released soon after Katrina could not go back to their old neighborhoods, as they normally would have done. Their neighborhoods were devastated by a once-in-a-generation storm that damaged the vast majority of housing units in New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina provided a rare opportunity to investigate what happens when individuals move not just a short distance, but to entirely different cities, counties, and social worlds. This study draws upon both quantitative and qualitative evidence to reveal where newly released prisoners resided in the wake of the Katrina, the effect of residential relocation on the likelihood of reincarceration through eight years post-release, and the mechanisms revealing why residential change is so important after release from prison.

scholarly journals Alternate Reality Games in the Systems Engineering Classroom

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 287-295
Author(s):  
Klew Williams ◽  
Alexandrina Agloro ◽  
Shamsnaz S. Virani
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Alternate Reality Games ◽  
Alternate Reality ◽  
Engineering Classroom

scholarly journals The TL;DR Charter: Speculatively Demystifying Privacy Policy Documents and Terms Agreements

2022 ◽  
Vol 6 (GROUP) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Lindah Kotut ◽  
D. Scott McCrickard
Keyword(s):  
Privacy Policy ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Software Adoption ◽  
User Data ◽  
Alternate Reality ◽  
Future Technologies ◽  
Design Fiction ◽  
The Impact

Privacy policy and term agreement documents are considered the gateway for software adoption and use. The documents provide a means for the provider to outline expectations of the software use, and also provide an often-separate document outlining how user data is collected, stored, and used--including if it is shared with other parties. A user agreeing with the terms, assumes that they have a full understanding the terms of the agreement and have provided consent. Often however, users do not read the documents because they are long and full of legalistic and inconsistent language, are regularly amended, and may not disclose all the details on what is done to the user data. Enforcing compliance and ensuring user consent have been persistent challenges to policy makers and privacy researchers. This design fiction puts forward an alternate reality and presents a policy-based approach to fording the consent gap with the TL;DR Charter: an agreement governing the parties involved by harnessing the power of formal governments, industry, and other stakeholders, and taking users expectation of privacy into account. The Charter allows us as researchers to examine the implications on trust, decision-making, consent, accountability and the impact of future technologies.

Between the physical and the virtual: The present tense of virtual space

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-109
Author(s):  
Andrew Burrell
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Installation Art ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interactive Installation ◽  
Immersive Virtual Environments ◽  
Present Tense ◽  
Alternate Reality ◽  
Narrative Spaces

This article explores a way of thinking about virtual environments and how they might be used to create new spaces, not as an alternate reality, but as an integrated part of reality – regardless of this reality being physical and/or digital. Virtual environments can be seen as an extension of reality – the physical and the virtual sitting side by side with one, more often than not, bleeding into the other. The virtual is not separable from the physical and vice versa. This position will be formed by directly referring to traditions that stem from processes and ideas around materiality, poetics and philosophy rather than centring on technical or hardware specifics. At the centre of this exploration is an ongoing investigation into the role of memory and imagination in narrative spaces in immersive virtual environments, stemming from the author’s background in interactive Installation art and designing for virtual environments. The article’s subtitle refers to Robert Morris’s 1978 article, ‘The present tense of space’, which informs the article’s overall position.

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