Understanding Parent's Acceptance to use Virtual Reality Glasses in Egyptian Primary School using the Protection Motivation Theory

Abstract

This study aims to develop an understanding of the perspective of Egyptian parents on children using Virtual Reality (VR) glasses in primary education stages. Many factors affect users ’decisions to use new technology including the threat severity, threat vulnerability, response efficacy, self-efficacy, fear, and trust school. This study is a quantitative research examines the acceptance of using Virtual Reality glass in primary Education using Structured Equation Modeling (SEM).An online survey was designed to collect the desired data where the sample size is 875 participants. The proposed research model was developed based on the conducted analysis. The proposed model would help educational institutions understand the factors that affect using virtual reality techniques in the education process. The study’s results show that there is a significant impact to threat severity, response efficacy, fear, trust school. However, self-efficacy and threat vulnerability are not significant.Keywords: Primary education,Virtual Reality, glass; PMT; primary education; acceptance to use; Structured Equation Modeling; Egypt.

Keywords

• primary education
• virtual reality
• glass؛ pmt؛ primary education