The Affordable Virtual Learning Technology of Sea Salt Farming across Multigenerational Users through Improving Fitts’ Law

Sumitra Nuanmeesri ()
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Sumitra Nuanmeesri: Faculty of Science and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Dusit, Bangkok 10300, Thailand

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 17, 1-21

Abstract: Sea salt farms are the source of salt, an indispensable essential ingredient in various foods and products. Further, they act as frontlines to protect marine disasters from entering domestic residential areas. However, sea salt farming has decreased in popularity among recent-generation farmers in Samut Songkhram Province, Thailand. This paper presents the development of an affordable virtual learning (AVL) application for Thailand’s sea salt farming. Fitts’ law was applied to optimize user-interactive objects’ size and placement to reduce selection time. The sample consisted of 127 multigenerational users, namely those in Generation X, Generation Y, and Generation Z. This study found that the developed AVL applied Fitts’ law to be used harmoniously with VR economical equipment. A total of 90.55% of multigenerational users were satisfied with the developed AVL. The “Looking” and “Executing by eye focus” activities were enjoyed by 100% of participants. The following activities were “Walking” and “Listening”, with 82.68% and 77.95% enjoying them, respectively. Generation Z users responded more to the “Walking” activity than Generation X and Y users. In addition, the hypothesis testing result of learning outcomes through AVL was consistent among multigenerational users. Therefore, the developed AVL should be used as a medium to conserve sea salt farming in Thailand.

Keywords: affordable virtual learning; Fitts’ law; multigenerational; sea salt; virtual reality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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