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How does one visually represent the use of time? We explored students’ use of graphical metaphors by asking undergraduates at a public French university to generate representations of their personal time-use including: activities, sequence, duration, timing, and frequency. The resulting use of space and form was analyzed by way of an iteratively developed coding scheme. We discuss how the analyses of the spontaneous productions support previous research on spatial representations of time, and the implications for the design of time management tools for students.
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A full description of the coding scheme can be found at https://osf.io/ms9kq/.
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Fox, A.R., de Vries, E., Lima, L., Loker, S. (2016). Exploring Representations of Student Time-Use. In: Jamnik, M., Uesaka, Y., Elzer Schwartz, S. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9781. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42333-3_4
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