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ROBOTS IN EDUCATION: A JORDANIAN UNIVERSITY CASE STUDY🔗

ROBOTS EN EDUCACIÓN: EL CASO DE UNA UNIVERSIDAD DE JORDANIA🔗

Author(s)🔗

Ala Almahameed , Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Dana AlShwayat , University of Petra, Jordan
Mario Arias-Oliva , Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Jorge Pelegrín-Borondo , Universidad de la Rioja, Spain

https://doi.org/10.35564/jmbe.2020.0011

Abstract🔗

This paper adopts a technology acceptance model used for studying Robot’s acceptance and focuses on the acceptance of robotic technologies. Despite a wide range of studies on the acceptance and usage of robotics technologies in different fields, there is lacuna of empirical evidence on the acceptance of robotics technologies in the educational context. We contribute to the scholarship on robotics technologies in an educational context, by using qualitative semi-structured interviews, and proposing a research model to empirically explore the main factors affecting the acceptance of robotics technologies, and particularly among university students. We contribute to practice by offering insights on users' expectations and intentions toward the potential use of robot services to both robot developers, and educational institutions alike. The results revealed a potential impact of effort expectancy, performance expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions on the intention behavior towards using robots as academic advisors. Additionally, an emergent dimension (i.e. emotions) was found to have an influence on the behavioral intentions, via its proposed impact on performance and effort expectancies. Overall, social characteristics of robots ought to be considered when investigating their acceptance, specifically when used as social entities in a human environment.

Keywords
robot, technology acceptance, robotics technologies, educational context

Resumen🔗

Este trabajo adopta un modelo de aceptación de tecnología utilizado para estudiar la aceptación de los Robots y enfocándose en la aceptación de las tecnologías robóticas. A pesar de una amplia gama de estudios sobre la aceptación y el uso de tecnologías robóticas en diferentes campos, existe una laguna de evidencia empírica sobre la aceptación de tecnologías robóticas en el contexto educativo. Contribuimos a la investigación sobre tecnologías de robótica en un contexto educativo, en particular en un contexto universitario, mediante el uso de entrevistas cualitativas semiestructuradas y proponiendo un modelo de investigación para explorar empíricamente los principales factores que afectan la aceptación de las tecnologías de robótica, y particularmente entre los estudiantes universitarios. Contribuimos a la práctica ofreciendo ideas sobre las expectativas e intenciones de los usuarios hacia el uso potencial de los servicios de robots tanto para los desarrolladores de robots como para las instituciones educativas por igual. Los resultados revelaron un impacto potencial de la expectativa de esfuerzo, la expectativa de rendimiento, la influencia social y las condiciones facilitadoras en el comportamiento intencional hacia el uso de robots como asesores académicos. Además, se descubrió que una dimensión emergente (i.e. las emociones) influye en las intenciones de comportamiento, a través de su impacto en el rendimiento y las expectativas de esfuerzo. En general, las características sociales de los robots deben considerarse al investigar su aceptación, específicamente cuando se usan como entidades sociales en un entorno humano.

Palabras clave
robot, aceptación tecnológica, tecnologías robóticas, contexto educativo

Received
5 June 2020

Accepted
21 June 2020

Copyright
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

Citation🔗

Almahameed, A.; AlShwayat, D.; Arias-Oliva, M. & Pelegrín-Borondo, J. (2020). Robots in education: a Jordanian university case study. Journal of Management and Business Education, 3(2), 164-180. https://doi.org/10.35564/jmbe.2020.0011

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