The Study of Students Perceptions of On-campus ... - Research Bank

� What did participants use WLANs for?
Almost all the participants had multiple reasons for using WLANs on
campus. Two participants used the WLANs just for surfing the Internet
and 13 participants used them for research only. All the rest (49
participants) had multiple reasons. Research was definitely the most
important reason for using WLANs on campus, with 53 responses. Surfing
the Internet was second, with 38 responses. Shopping on the Internet had
the least, with two responses and playing Internet games was just one
more than shopping on the Internet. Chatting on the Internet and
E-learning had exactly the same number, with 18 each. Getting
entertainment and downloading from the Internet had close results with
14 and 15. Having discussion over the Internet had nine responses. Only
one participant was doing all those activities via WLANs on campus. Other
activities included checking emails with three responses, and doing
assignments and studying with one response each.
Numbers of Participants
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40
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Surfing Internet
38
Shopping
2
Research
53
Entertainment
Purpose of using WLANs
14
Chat
18
Internet Game
51
3
Discussion
9
E-learning
Figure 4- 6: Purpose of using WLANs on campus
18
Download
15
Other
5