Juan Josué E. Morales-Cervantes, A. B. Urbina-Nájera, Luis Fernando Olachea-Parra
{"title":"Factors influencing the satisfaction and persistence of university engineering students","authors":"Juan Josué E. Morales-Cervantes, A. B. Urbina-Nájera, Luis Fernando Olachea-Parra","doi":"10.1109/EIRCON52903.2021.9613689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIRCON52903.2021.9613689","url":null,"abstract":"This study has the aim to evaluate the factors that affect the satisfaction and persistence of higher education students. The study focused on factors such as tuition payments, academic tutoring, and faculty performance. The sample consisted of 280 students enrolled in the industrial and systems engineering program of a public state university in the state of Sonora-Mexico, who answered a 32 questions questionnaire that evaluates: tuition, tutoring, faculty, satisfaction, student persistence, and sociodemographic questions. An exploratory, confirmatory factor analysis and a structural equation model were performed, the results of the model indicated that tuition, tutoring, and faculty have a significant and positive impact on satisfaction and, in turn, on student persistence. The performance of the academic staff is the most influential factor, followed by academic tutoring, and finally, support in tuition. Consequently, it is clear that those responsible for formulating strategies and policies in higher education institutions should redouble their efforts to implement actions that contribute to student retention, particularly in this period of virtual education due to the Covid-19 contingency.","PeriodicalId":403519,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Engineering International Research Conference (EIRCON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132059318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Badinho Cornejo Chunga, Luis Sebastián Arribasplata Chávarri, Rolando Javier Berrú Beltrán
{"title":"Gamification Techniques to Enhance the User Experience in Tourist Centres: A Mobile Application Proposal","authors":"Daniel Badinho Cornejo Chunga, Luis Sebastián Arribasplata Chávarri, Rolando Javier Berrú Beltrán","doi":"10.1109/EIRCON52903.2021.9613355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIRCON52903.2021.9613355","url":null,"abstract":"This proposal was conducted to describe the characteristics of the user experience of visitors in the tourist centres of Trujillo and the aspects that should be considered in gamification techniques to propose the design of a mobile application. Data was collected using the Museum Experience Scale (MES) applied to a group of 384 participants. The results highlight deficiencies in the indicators of engagement, knowledge/learning, meaningful experience, and emotional connection. The outcome of this study is the design of a mobile application considering the thematic aspects of gamification techniques such as game mechanics and game dynamics to enhance the indicators identified in the previous analysis.","PeriodicalId":403519,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Engineering International Research Conference (EIRCON)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121684313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}