VISUALIZATION OF INFORMATION IN A PC TIME MANAGEMENT TOOL FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS : As a Case of Communication Design Studies

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The present study proposed a PC time management tool for university students and considered the visualization of information from a point of view of communication design. From literature review, student interview and trial use of current PC time management tools we derived 3 design concepts; 1) Using their free time, students can improve their time management ability, 2) students can separate and displayed their plans, and 3) students can easily browse and input the plans. The proposal had 2 innovations about the visualization: displaying free time in a day and setting the timetable of class as core schedule. Five experiments examined the prototypes and revealed modification points. In conclusion, to make students aware of time management, the tool should have following features; 1) the free time in a day is presented in a pie chart, 2) the school plans are separated from the private plans and presented in a different window, and 3) the countdown window announces the important schedules.