Scavenger Hunt Game Research Articles

Empowering Student Transition and Engaging Students Using Actionbound: A Gamified Collaborative Community Learning Platform

Transition to University is a significant milestone for students who are embracing new experiences and challenges. It is particularly vital for international students who have to adapt to a new and different learning environment in the UK. Successful transition and sense of belonging in a new institution lay foundation for students’ academic success. However, transition is a process rather than an event. Accordingly, fostering a collaborative community learning environment and facilitate peer networks and community support becomes critical. It enables social interactions and active learning by engaging students in collaborative group activities, which would in turn support students’ transition to and belonging in a new learning environment. With the advancement of technology, computer-assisted and computer-supported collaborative learning flourished in 21st century. The emergence of mobile digital technology leads to the design of gamification in learning, known as game-based learning or gamified collaborative community learning in order to engage students in fun and interactive activities. ‘Actionbound’ is one of the versatile gamification platforms and mobile apps which can engage students in collaborative community learning with gamified activities. It enables users to create, share and participate in interactive scavenger hunts, tours, games and quizzes. It allows users to design custom challenges, incorporate multimedia content and track players’ progress in real-time. It engages participants to work collaboratively to solve challenges and complete tasks. At UHBS, we have used Actionbound to support the student transition into the University’ learning journey at the start of term. We used scavenger hunt game and quiz functions within Actionbound to direct students to collaborate in teams to solve the challenges and tasks. In this action research, students found Actionbound fun and loved the competitive nature with points and leaderboards. It helped them build network and form friendship. Together, they solved puzzles and tackled challenges which supported their transition and got them prepared for learning in a new environment. Moving forward, as an ongoing action research, we would like to extend the use of Actionbound to term time and in module delivery so to track students’ engagement with the collaborative learning platform and investigate the impact on their academic performance.

The Use of Scavenger Hunt Game to Promote an English Learning Atmosphere For Young Learners

The learning atmosphere is one aspect that can support success in the learning process. However, to create a good and enjoyable learning atmosphere, teachers must use a technique or strategy that is suitable, one of which is the use of the Scavenger Hunt game. This research aimed to describe the use of a Scavenger Hunt game in promoting the English learning atmosphere which is conducted at MIS Mambaul Islam Soko Tuban. To explain the extent of the Scavenger Hunt game in promoting the English learning atmosphere, the researcher employed a case-study research approach to get more information in detail. The data were collected through the observation and questionnaire. The population of this research was the fifth-grade students of MIS Mambaul Islam Soko Tuban in the academic year 2023/2024 which consisted of 24 students. The result showed that the use of the Scavenger Hunt game was effective in promoting the English learning atmosphere evidenced by the fulfillment of good and positive Atmosphere learning criteria after the implementation of the Scavenger Hunt game.

Teaching English Vocabulary to SD 257 Patampanua Students Using Scavenger Hunt

This study aims to explore the effectiveness of teaching English vocabulary through the scavenger hunt game in improving English vocabulary to students. The scavenger hunt game, which involves students in the search for new words in their environment, is thought to increase students' interest and involvement in learning a foreign language The methodology used in this study is to use quantitative research with exsperimental design. The participants of this study are grade IV students of SD 257 Patampanua which totals 13 students. Data from this study were collected by pre test and post test. The results indicated that teaching vocabulary to students through Scavenger Hunt, this has a positive effect on students' vocabulary and it is proven by the increase in the average score of students in the pre-test (47.76) and post-test (74.23), while the t-test score (1.87) is greater than the t-table (1,753). Thus, the game of scavenger hunt can be considered an effective and fun alternative in teaching English vocabulary. The study also suggests conducting further research with larger samples and variations of learning contexts to corroborate these findings.

STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF USING SCAVENGER HUNT GAME IN UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL CONTEXT OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

This research study investigates students’ perception of using the Scavenger Hunt game to understand the social context of second language acquisition. The participant of this research was 12 undergraduate students in the 5th semester. The data were collected from questionnaires, documentation, and interview. The data were analyzed using descriptive analysis. This study revealed that Scavenger Hunt is an exciting way to understand the social context of Second Language Acquisition because the students experienced directly and what they did were examples of some issues in learning the social context of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Teachers and lecturers should consider the integration of Scavenger Hunt and specific topics with some adaptation to make the activity effective in the teaching and learning process.

The Implementation of Scavenger Hunt Game in Teaching Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text

One of the English skills, namely reading, should be mastered by students so they can understand and comprehend the text they read. However, many students have lack of ability in reading especially in reading descriptive text. This research was aimed to find the effectiveness of implementing Scavenger Hunt game in teaching reading comprehension of descriptive text. This research used the one group of pre-test and post-test design without control group with the research sample is tenth graders of SMA Negeri 1 Palangka Raya in the academic year 2021/2022 with the number of sample was 39 students. The data were obtained by using pre-test and post-test in multiple choice test items in relation to descriptive texts to measure the students’ reading comprehension. The data were analysed using Wilcoxon Signed Rank test since the data was not normally distributed. The result showed that there was significant effect of implementing Scavenger Hunt game (p<0.01) in teaching reading of descriptive text at the secondary school.

Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection

Although people derive substantial benefit from social connection, they often refrain from talking to strangers because they have pessimistic expectations about how such conversations will go (e.g., they believe they will be rejected or not know what to say). Previous research has attempted but failed to get people to realize that their concerns about talking to strangers are overblown. To reduce people's fears, we developed an intervention in which participants played a week-long scavenger hunt game that involved repeatedly finding, approaching, and talking to strangers. Compared to controls, this minimal, easily replicable treatment made people less pessimistic about the possibility of rejection and more optimistic about their conversational ability—and these benefits persisted for at least a week after the study ended. Daily reports revealed that people's expectations grew more positive and accurate by the day, emphasizing the importance of repeated experience in improving people's attitudes towards talking with strangers.

Penerapan Teknik Scavenger Hunt dalam Bimbingan Klasikal untuk Mengatasi Academic Burnout pada Siswa

Academic burnout is when students experience emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced academic efficacy due to burnout and stress experienced for a long period. One of the factors that cause academic burnout is the monotonous learning method, so students are getting bored and not eager to take part in learning. Thus, an effort that can be made to overcome academic burnout is to provide classical guidance with interactive and fun methods such as involving the scavenger hunt game. This study aimed to apply the scavenger hunt game technique in classical guidance to overcome academic burnout. The subjects of this study were students of class 8th at SMP Kolese Kanisius, totaling 162 students. This study is a pre-experimental study with a one-group pretest-posttest design. This study's data collection techniques were MBI-SS, observation, interviews, and questionnaires. Based on the Wilcoxon test analysis results using SPSS, the Asymp. (2-tailed) value is 0.000. The Asymp value. (0.000) is smaller than the α value (0.05). These results indicate a significant difference between before and after being given classical guidance with the scavenger hunt game technique. So, it can be concluded that the scavenger hunt game technique through classical guidance can overcome academic burnout.

Teaching preposition by using scavenger hunt game

This research aimed to find out the effectiveness of teaching preposition by using Scavenger Hunt Game to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 11 Lubuklinggau in academic year 2019/2020. There are two hypothesis in this research, the null hypothesis (Ho) which stated that it is not effective to teach preposition by using Scavenger Hunt Game to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 11 Lubuklinggau and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) which stated that it is effective to teach preposition by using Scavenger Hunt Game to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 11 Lubuklinggau. The pre-experimental method was applied in this research. There were 28 students treated as the sample of the research taken from class VIII.3 by using cluster random sampling. The data was collected by writing test. Moreover, the writer used SPSS 20 to analyzed the data. The data from the test was analyzed through individual score, comparison for Minimum Mastery Criteria (MMC), and used ready match t-test. From the data analyse, the writer found out that there was different between the students’ score before and after the treatment. The average score of pre-test was 47.68 and for the post-test was 75.89. Moreover, the result of match t-test was higher than the coefficients of t-table. The result of match t-test was 18.488 whereas the coefficients critical value of t-table was 1.703 for significant level 0.05 for df 27. It means that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. In other word, it was significantly effective to teach preposition by using Scavenger Hunt Game to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 11 Lubuklinggau in academic year 2019/2020.

The Effect of Scavenger Hunt Game on Students’ Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text

This research had purpose to find out whether there was a positive effect of scavenger hunt technique on students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text. Scavenger Hunt is a fact-finding and information-processing activity, where the students work in group to search for hidden items and perform task by using some clues.The method used in this research was quasi-experimental research. This research was conducted at the eighth grade students of SMP N 2 Kota Solok. The samples of this research were two homogeneous classes that chosen by using purposive sampling technique. The experimental class was taught by using scavenger hunt technique, meanwhile the control class was taught by using three phase technique. The technique of gathering the data of this research was by using reading test. The result of this research showed that there was a positive effect of implementation scavenger hunt technique, where the mean score at experimental class was 77,14 and control class was 72,94. Thus, the experimental students outcomes were higher than the control class.It means that students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text taught by using Scavenger Hunt game technique was better than taught by using three phase technique. 
 Keywords: Scavenger Hunt, Reading Comprehension, Descriptive Text

Scavenger Hunt: Utilization of Blockchain and IoT for a Location-Based Game

Distributed Ledger Technology, has been gaining enormous attention in areas beyond cryptocurrency. Industries such as energy, transportation, and healthcare are already integrating DLTs into their operations. On the other hand, recent advances and the increasing popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are also enabling new and exciting ways of interaction and sensing for mobile device users. Mobile gaming is another prominent industry that can be benefited from these technological developments and has the potential to create business opportunities. In this paper, we explore the uses of Distributed Ledger Technology in Mobile Gaming and for this purpose, we have taken a location-based IoT mobile gaming use case and propose new gaming features for the players by the addition of the DLT. We propose a platform for creating and playing scavenger hunt games using low-power BLE beacons. It allows smartphones to interact with the predetermined real-world locations and players can observe the surrounding environment looking for “clues” in the game. At the end of a hunt, the player receives rewards that are stored on a distributed ledger as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) and can bring in-game advantages for the next hunts. The proposed system is implemented using off-the-shelf devices and IoT beacons. We implemented our hybrid architecture by using AWS Lambda, Hyperledger Fabric managed blockchain and DynamoDB. We performed multiple experiments measuring the time taken for the end-to-end process, IoT beacon response times and the throughput of the Fabric network. Using the performance results, we estimated the maximum number of active players that can be supported by the game. Finally, we discuss business opportunities and limitations of the proposed proof of concept.

It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt: using a scavenger hunt game to teach human factors to junior doctors.

Human factors are extremely important in healthcare. It is now a requirement that all junior doctors demonstrate understanding of human factors in medical error.1 Feedback from previous teaching to foundation doctors on human factors in South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust included comments such as ‘just not relevant to us at this level of our training’. A session entitled ‘Introduction to human factors’ aimed to meet the outcome as expected in junior doctors’ Foundation Programme curriculum: ‘Describes the role of human factors in medical errors and takes steps to minimise these’. The foundation doctors were divided into teams. …

It’s all fun and games until somebody gets hurt: using a scavenger hunt game to teach human factors to junior doctors

Human factors are extremely important in healthcare. It is now a requirement that all junior doctors demonstrate understanding of human factors in medical error.1 Feedback from previous teaching to foundation doctors on human factors in South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust included comments such as ‘just not relevant to us at this level of our training’. A session entitled ‘Introduction to human factors’ aimed to meet the outcome as expected in junior doctors’ Foundation Programme curriculum: ‘Describes the role of human factors in medical errors and takes steps to minimise these’. The foundation doctors were divided into teams. …

Crowdsourcing for Context: Regarding Privacy in Beacon Encounters via Contextual Integrity

Abstract Research shows that context is important to the privacy perceptions associated with technology. With Bluetooth Low Energy beacons, one of the latest technologies for providing proximity and indoor tracking, the current identifiers that characterize a beacon are not sufficient for ordinary users to make informed privacy decisions about the location information that could be shared. One solution would be to have standardized category and privacy labels, produced by beacon providers or an independent third-party. An alternative solution is to find an approach driven by users, for users. In this paper, we propose a novel crowdsourcing based approach to introduce elements of context in beacon encounters.We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach through a user study, where participants use a crowd-based mobile app designed to collect beacon category and privacy information as a scavenger hunt game. Results show that our approach was effective in helping users label beacons according to the specific context of a given beacon encounter, as well as the privacy perceptions associated with it. This labeling was done with an accuracy of 92%, and with an acceptance rate of 82% of all recommended crowd labels. Lastly, we conclusively show how crowdsourcing for context can be used towards a user-centric framework for privacy management during beacon encounters.

HUNT: Scavenger Hunt with Augmented Reality

This project shows a creative approach to the familiar scavenger hunt game. It involved the implementation of an iPhone application, HUNT, with Augmented Reality (AR) capability for the users to play the game as well as an administrative website that game organizers can use to create and make available games for users to play. Using the HUNT mobile app, users will first make a selection from a list of games, and they will then be shown a list of objects that they must seek. Once the user finds a correct object and scans it with the built-in camera on the smartphone, the application will attempt to verify if it is the correct object and then display associated multi-media AR content that may include images and videos overlaid on top of real world views. HUNT not only provides entertaining activities within an environment that players can explore, but the AR contents can serve as an educational tool. The project is designed to increase user involvement by using a familiar and enjoyable game as a basis and adding an educational dimension by incorporating AR technology and engaging and interactive multimedia to provide users with facts about the objects that they have located

Number Sleuth

Number Sleuth, a math scavenger hunt game, encourages problem solving and computations. Variations in the article include ways to adapt the game across grade levels. Postscript items are designed as rich grab-and-go resources that any teacher can quickly incorporate into their classroom repertoire with little effort and maximum impact.

Online Ministry in a Massively Multi-Player World of Warcraft

Online Ministry in a Massively Multi-Player World of Warcraft

Examining Team Planning Through an Episodic Lens

Three types of team planning processes differing in terms of timing and adaptation capacity are investigated. Deliberate planning and contingency planning occur during team transition phases; deliberate planning specifies a primary course of action whereas contingency planning specifies backup plans. Reactive adjustment is planning that occurs during the action phase when teams adapt plans to account for evolving task conditions. The current study uses data from a scavenger hunt game involving a total of 38 teams randomly assigned to preplanning or control conditions. While instructing teams to plan increased deliberate planning, it does not increase the adaptation-enabling processes of contingency planning and reactive adjustment. Team effectiveness is determined most strongly by reactive adjustment, then by contingency planning, and least so by deliberate planning.

Beyond the windshield: scavenging community data.

Faculty developed a scavenger hunt game to introduce baccalaureate and generic registered nurse (RN) students to the concept of community in a brief, interactive, and challenging way. The game enabled students to examine community structures and processes. It stimulated skill-building in caseload management and reduced student anxiety about community-based care. The author discusses the outcomes, benefits, and limitations of the scavenger hunt.