Escape Rooms: How They Help Us While Entertaining Us

Background and Aim: Education involves everybody at any age, but it is very important to younger generation, a large group of this generation is familiar with gaming. This fact creates a very great opportunity for education to use games as an educational tools. Creation games for a purpose of learning or serious games beneficiate both learners and educators in many different levels. These games can bring users realistic and compelling challenges, highly stimulating their information processing capabilities and capturing their concentration span for long duration, the inpatient younger generation need more motivation to be involved in learning process. Escape rooms as a relatively new media of entertainment are gaining popularity around the world fast and Iran is not an exception. what makes this new media interesting is the fact that while it entertain the participants it help them to improve their cognitive abilities this study tries to discuss how escape rooms are helping participants to improve their cognitive abilities while enjoying the process of playing a game for better understanding the picture a number of examples from escape rooms in Iran and around the world is brought here. Methods: To answer the given research questions, qualitative method would be most appropriate to find an answer. The researcher would use articles and books on the subject matter to create a picture for the audience also the experiences the writer had playing different escape rooms in Iran will help her in answering the research question Results: defining and describing the importance of escape rooms as a new media of entertainment which can provide a great opportunity for researchers to study participant while can provide participant with a mean to improve their cognitive abilities while bonding with family and friends improving team works and ultimately enjoy playing a game. Conclusion: Showing the effectiveness of escape rooms in improving the cognitive abilities of its participant according to different experiments conducted by universities across the world.

کلیدواژه ها:

Escape rooms ، Cognitive abilities ، Education ، Serious games