US 8,172,577 B2 · System and method for knowledge transfer with a game

Abstract

An educational maze navigated through responses to questions provided at points in the maze enhances factual assimilation and retention for the user. The user selects responses to travel through the maze and is not immediately informed whether the selected responses are correct. Various indications can be provided to inform the user about the correctness of responses or whether they are on a path towards the maze exit. The indications may be dead ends, loops, suggested reference materials or other information that tends to assist the user in assimilating facts or navigating the maze. The user may receive a reward for providing correct responses or successfully completing the maze. The problem-solving and cognitive judgment skills applied to navigate the maze tends to help users assimilate and retain the factual information represented by the queries and responses.

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Dependent claims

A method for transferring knowledge to or testing knowledge of a user with a game implemented on a numerical computation device, the method comprising:

providing a maze architecture representative of an information space and composed of interconnected nodes to form paths through the maze;
providing a query and a plurality of responses, each response being associated with a path leading out of at least one node, one of the responses being a more correct response to the query than another response in the plurality, wherein the plurality of responses are not physical maze directions;
and
presenting the user with the query and responses associated with the at least one node when the user is represented as being located at the at least one node;
receiving a response selection from the user;
as a result of the response selection received from the user, representing movement of the user out of the at least one node along a path associated with the response selection received from the user in accordance with the maze architecture.

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System and method for knowledge transfer with a game

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System and method for knowledge transfer with a game

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