“Help RobAI Fix Its System Bug”: An Escape Game Assisting Teaching AI Literacy #ECIL2025

Sheila again logging at ECIL 2025 “Help RobAI Fix Its System Bug”: An Escape Game Assisting Teaching AI Literacy presented by Zuza Wiorogórska (University of Warsaw, Poland), Tatiana Sanches (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), Zuzanna “Zu” Sendor (University of Warsaw Library, Poland).
This was a comparative exploratory study with Polish  and Portuguese students. Step 1 was ChatGPT exercises (defining IL in English and asking for articles; asking for info on the instructor; writing an introduction to a topic; shorten a text and translate to your language; summarise english task and assign keywords; and asking ChatGPT to convert a bibliography from one style to another). For each ChatGPT task the students had to assess the results from ChatGPT. The assessments varied between the cohorts from the two countries.
The students found ChatGPT useful for some tasks e.g. translating texts, generating abstracts but also had concerns e.g. innaccurate content, impersonal tone of replies. The overall view was the view that it could support academic but must be used with critical thinking and human oversight.
The second step was an Escape Game. They developed the game themselves with an application. Mission 1 was understanding what influences CHatGPT's responses and how it can support academic work. The 2nd challenge was about truthfulness and the 3rd challenge was identifying true and false statements about GenAI's capabilities and limitations. If you succeeded you got a number that enabled you to tackle the next mission. They had a cute cartoon robot (RobAI) accompanying them, and had, for example, drag and drop answers, answers where you had to choose either the true or false statement. The robot cried if you failed. When you won and fixed the robot it was happy - the students liked this aspect.
The advantage of the game was reinforcing key concepts and enabling reflection on integrating AI in a critical and ethical way. There were some cultural differences between the two cohorts (who were in 2 countries and also one on campus and one online). Future research could explore long term impact and cross-disciplinary use. They gave a link for the game as https://tinyurl.cm/ujp7y278 though it wasn't loading for me (I will try and check up on that).