A Digital Mindset for the Society 5.0: Experience an Online Escape Room

Escape rooms are a great way for teams to work together to practice quickly solving problems under pressure and time constraints — all while simultaneously having fun. This article is about an online escape room designed to require cooperation and conflict, rational choice, decision making, truth-functional logic, causality, hypothesis testing, problem solving, cognitive and metacognitive challenges, teamworking and interpersonal communication under time pressure and stress, and organizing a strategic response that can later translate to the efficient and effective facilitation of real-world actions — all within a totally digitalized environment called e-REAL®. Cognitive biases, fixation errors, and other obstacles to overcome are assured, but evitable thanks to the effective learning experience are also assured. This escape room is designed to present lively, interactive activities aimed at understanding challenging scenarios like decision-making chains, as well as thrillers or cybercrime scenarios, Blockchain-based operations or digital and cryptocurrencies, but also data visualization and interpretation, preventative maintenance operations, and crisis management in healthcare or telemedicine.