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The Games Project: Environment & Behavior at Olympic Village

The Games Project is a proposed research effort to investigate
environment-behavior issues surrounding international athletic
festivals - in particular Olympic Village.  We have chosen this
very special setting as an interesting research site because:

     - It is a kind of site which is regularly repeated.  Lessons
     learned should be able to fed forward to future sites;

     - It is a setting which encourages study of performance under
     stress, and the role of the setting in exacerbating or
     ameliorating the stress;

     - It is an ideal site for looking at cultural variations in
     response to the physical setting (at Olympic Village,
     participants include people from almost every nation and
     culture, all of whom come for the same time and purpose, and
     with the same previous experience in the setting.  It is
     almost a controlled experiment in culture and environment).

We expect to be collecting some preliminary data at Barcelona this
summer.   We need help, however, finding people who will be
participating in the Barcelona games from North America and
(particularly) from around the world.

I am asking the help of the list in identifying participants
(athletes, trainers, coaches, journalists, tourists, etc.) and/or
people connected with national Olympic committees.  We already have
support from the U.S. Olympic Committee.

If you have an friends, acquaintances students, etc. who will be
going to the games, and who might be interested in helping out with
the study (in a big or small way) please contact me.

I will be happy to share more of our ideas, methodological
approaches and (later) findings with the list - if anyone evinces
interest.

Thanks you,

Rich Wener
RWENER@POLYVM
Polytechnic University
333 Jay St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718 260-3585
(fax) 718 260-3136