Studying Reflective Learning in Virtual Escape Rooms

Project Overview

This project explores the potential for AI to support learners’ reflection while solving problems in immersive environments. We are creating a virtual escape room environment in which learners solve puzzles and improve their problem-solving skills in VR, a mixed reality (MR) environment, and on a PC. To support learners, we are designing and testing an AI-enabled character in the game who asks them to engage in metacognitive reflection. Over three years we are studying how such reflective activities improve learning, and testing the optimal design of such an agent, assessing when and how they should interject and probe the player’s thinking to best improve learning.