Title: Determinants of university students’ attitudes towards smart devices in the smart campus environment
Abstract: Considering the rapid advancement of information and communication technology, smart campuses represent a significant evolution of digital campus, integrating intelligent technologies to enhance educational quality, resource allocation, and management efficiency. However, the factors influencing universitystudents' comprehensive experiences and perceptions ofsmartdevices usage within the broader, integrated smartcampusenvironment remain insufficiently understood. Addressing this gap, the present study integrates the technology acceptance model with the task-technology fit theory and perceived risk theory to investigate the factors influencing universitystudents' attitudes toward using smartdevices (ATT) inthesmartcampusenvironment. The results from a sample of 428 Chinese universitystudents obtained using partial least squares structural equation modeling reveal that perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEU), and information security significantly influence students' ATT, whereas learning support and perceived interactivity exert indirect effects on ATT through PU and PEU. This study deepens the understanding of technology acceptance in highly technology-integrated smartcampus environments, advances human-centered research on thesmartcampus, and provides practical insights to facilitate the effective implementation and broader adoption ofsmartdevices on a smartcampus, thereby supporting the sustainable development of higher education.
Keywords Plus:
PLS-SEM；SECURITY；ACCEPT；ANCEINTENTION；SYSTEMS
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-05853-1
