SuSci: Using Interactive Games to Help Mental Recollection

Forgetting information is a natural problem that all of us encounter to a certain degree. As such, experts and professionals thought of various practices and strategies that helped people recall information. People who forget certain valuable and useful information when they need to is detrimental to one's personal growth especially to students and their academics. Research showed that cognitivism is one of the many effective strategies used to help people recall information albeit the same learning theory applied in interactive video games has not been established yet. The project discussed the use of interactive video games as a method to assist students regarding information recall. Through the use of an original 2D point-and-click escape room interactive game, a survey questionnaire is distributed to students above the Grade 6 level and the collected data were analyzed to determine whether interactive games help the students' mental recollection. As a result, the study concluded that interactive games are in fact effective in promoting information recall with regards to students above the Grade 6 level.