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Lab Quest

Walk the campus, help nine people with nine steps of research, and earn the professor's secret.

  • About 10 minutes

Lab Quest

Walk the campus, help nine people with nine steps of research, and earn the professor's secret.

Keyboard, touch or gamepad. Sound stays off until you turn it on.

How to play

Arrow keys or WASD walk. Space or Enter talks and picks things up. On a phone, use the pad and the A button. P pauses.

A small adventure on a campus of our own making: a library, a lab, a quad and a clock tower. Everyone you meet teaches one step of the research process, from the question to publishing (publish or perish, they say). Finish all nine and the professor has a secret for you.

What you will learn

  • The research process end to end: question, protocol, search, screening, extraction, synthesis, writing, PRISMA and publishing.
  • What makes a research question answerable (PICO) and why the protocol comes before the search.
  • How the PRISMA 2020 flow diagram counts every record, and why the numbers must add up.

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