The Untapped Potential of Escape Rooms as Gamified Research Environments
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Argues escape rooms are an underused research platform and makes three concrete, actionable claims: flexible modality — rooms scale from physical to VR to 2D so researchers can build an ocean-floor VR scenario or a tabletop prototype; behavioral sandbox — non‑linear puzzles and forced task splitting create measurable team coordination, leadership, and problem‑solving events; natural interjections — the game master’s expected hints serve as low‑intrusion moments for collecting reflective or cueing data without breaking immersion.
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