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The Effect of Students’ Intrinsic Motivation on Situation Awareness with Attention as Mediator in a Virtual Reality Asphalt Compactor
Bos, M.W.E. (2023) The Effect of Students’ Intrinsic Motivation on Situation Awareness with Attention as Mediator in a Virtual Reality Asphalt Compactor.
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| Abstract: | Situation awareness (SA) is essential when laying asphalt, for task performance and safety reasons. Therefore, it is important to identify which factors affect SA. Separate lines of research have shown an effect of motivation on attention and an effect of attention on SA. This study aimed to investigate if students’ motivation also (indirectly) affects their SA, with attention as mediator. Forty-seven road construction students were recruited from vocational schools. Each of them took part in a virtual asphalt simulation with a VR head mount, which was screen-recorded. They also wore wristband trackers to record psychophysiological measurements. Participants’ heart rate and skin conductance were measured and combined with the gaze-tracking of the screen recordings to indicate their attention. After the simulation, they filled in two questionnaires on their SA and their intrinsic motivation toward the asphalt training in VR. Results of the analysed data showed no effect of intrinsic motivation on attention, no effect of attention on SA, and no effect of intrinsic motivation on SA. Only a correlation was found between intrinsic motivation and attention. These results might be caused by the psychophysiological measures to indicate attention. Therefore, it would be useful to investigate other indicators of attention in the future, such as letting participants think out loud. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 70 social sciences in general |
| Programme: | Educational Science and Technology MSc (60023) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/97674 |
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