1Early Childhood Education, Kyungnam University, Kyungnamdaehak-ro, Masanhappo-gu, Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea
2Dept. of Early Childhood Education, Kyungsung University, 309, Suyeongro, Nam-gu, Busan, Korea
3Dept. of Early Childhood Education, Tongmyong University, 428, Sinseon-ro, Nam-gu, Busan, Korea
4Dept. of Computer Engineering, Tongmyong University, 428, Sinseon-ro, Nam-gu, Busan, Korea
5Dept. of Game Engineering, Tongmyong University, 428, Sinseon-ro, Nam-gu, Busan, Korea
*Corresponding Author: Migyung Cho, Professor, Dept. of Game Engineering, Tongmyong University, Korea. Email: mgcho@tu.ac.kr
Online published on 24 April, 2019.
We examined the perceptions of how science technology can change quality of life. We wanted to analyze what kind of images students have about science technology and quality of life.
A total of 144 students attending liberal arts classes were asked to describe the impact of science and technology on quality of life. All students were divided into small groups and activities were conducted among the groups. Two experiments were conducted to investigate whether the science technology have a positive or negative impact on quality of life. In addition, we analyzed the factors that lead to positive or negative views.
We could classify students’ images about science and technology and quality of life as mental factors, Socio-economic factors, technical factors and environmental factors. Socio-economic factors accounted for 63% of the total image frequency. The second most common factor was technical factors, accounting for 27% of the total. From the technical point of view, there are many positive factors that can improve the quality of life. Third, mental factors accounted for about 6%. Students thought that science and technology would negatively affect human mental factors. Finally, the image of the environmental factor was 3.7%, indicating that science technology would cause environmental problems such as air pollution and water pollution. The results of the chi-squared analysis showed that the four factors were discriminative factors that showed differences in opinion about how science technology affects quality of life in the future.
In order to improve the quality of life through the development of science and technology, socio-economic, mental factors and environmental factors derived from this study can be reflected in the policy.
Science and technology, future society, quality of life, Perception of university students, chi square analysis
