Gamifying Memory Retention : Interactive 3D maze for Facilitating Image Memorization

Sammanfattning

The slide presentation format is extensively used in classrooms and serves as the mainstream presentation tool in the educational context, providing a format to organize information into slides for presentation. There are many benefits to the slide presentation format. However several studies have also been dedicated to measuring the effect of the slide format on learning, which has resulted in mixed results. To investigate this problem, this study investigates how gamification combined with virtual environments can create a new format that can be compared and measured against the slide presentation format. Thus, a novel 3D maze format was developed. The developed 3D maze format was evaluated against the slide presentation format in an experiment with 21 participants, using the image memorization score (number of correctly remembered images from the experiment) as the variable for comparison. The results from the experiment showed that the slide presentation format resulted in a slightly higher image memorization score compared to the novel 3D maze format. However, one-third of the participants preferred the new format over the traditional slide presentation format despite it being completely new.