A Case Study of AR Technology and Engineering Students: Is There a Gender Gap?
| Autor: | Maria de Fátima Chouzal, Maria Teresa Restivo, Paulo Menezes, Diana Urbano |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0303 health sciences
business.industry Applied psychology Intention to use Cognition Usability Logistic regression 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Professional life Industrial management Augmented reality Gender gap Psychology business 030304 developmental biology |
| Zdroj: | Cross Reality and Data Science in Engineering ISBN: 9783030525743 REV |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-52575-0_27 |
| Popis: | Determining the factors influencing students’ intention to use Augmented Reality (AR) allows a deeper understanding on how students react to the use of such technologies in their training as engineers. This study aims to identify the emotional and cognitive factors that influence the students’ intention of using AR in their future professional life and to access possible gender differences. A group of about 150 undergraduate students from an Engineering and Industrial Management program had the opportunity to explore AR applications related to contents addressed in Sensors and Actuators course. A survey was designed and used with those students. Principal component analysis resulted in three components named interest, ease of use and attitude. Logistic regression analysis was conducted with these three components together with gender, as predictors of intention of using AR in later professional life. Attitude turned out to be the strongest predictor. This analysis has also shown that gender has no significant effect. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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