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Environment and Fear: Their Effect on Drone Acceptance, Information Needs, and Privacy Concern.

Benken, M.S.A. von den (2021) Environment and Fear: Their Effect on Drone Acceptance, Information Needs, and Privacy Concern.

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Abstract:Drones are used increasingly in different domains of daily life. Positive and negative aspects are known about drones, but there is a gap between what people think about the use of drones to enhance the safety of citizens in public places and the literature. The current study investigated how environment and fear influence privacy concerns, information needs and drone acceptance. Participants’ fear about drones was manipulated: they read a negative or a positive article about drones and privacy concerns. Participants (N = 136) put on VR glasses and saw a festival or a park where a drone flew over. As expected, results showed that drones were accepted more at the festival than in the park. Against expectations, many important variables were not significantly affected by fear. Against expectations, information needs were similar for all conditions, and a clear pattern was observed. Participants were mostly interested in (1) why is the drone here, (2) who is flying with it, and (3) privacy protection. The main recommendation is to provide people with this specific information about drones when they see a drone flying over to enhance the safety in public places, as people were to a great extent willing to obtain extra information. Future research could investigate how this information should be provided and what the effect is of meeting people’s information needs in this context.
Item Type:Essay (Master)
Faculty:BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Subject:77 psychology
Programme:Psychology MSc (66604)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/89073
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