JourneyMap: Visualising the time-bound student journey

Buzzo, Daniel; Phelps, Philip

Abstract

A student’s view of higher education is often talked about as ‘transformative’ and as a ‘journey’ or ‘pathway’. The student experience of university is time-bound, covering a clearly specified duration. From a
learner’s perspective the Higher Education journey begins at induction and ends at graduation. Through discrete and highly personal steps students move from one state, fresher, to another, graduate. This personal journey is explicitly linear, rather than the cyclic, annualised, time-perspective of the university.. The paper investigates how to visualise, in a temporal sense, this transformative journey. Incorporating necessary time bound events that appear in a students academic calendar and time table but in a student centric way that illustrates directly the journey the student takes and reinforces the time-bound, delineated nature of the student’s HE experience. We document the results from development and present recommendations for future work

• Conference Name: EVA London 2016 Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
• Start Date: Jul 12, 2016
• End Date: Jul 15, 2016
• Acceptance Date: Feb 1, 2016
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Nov 3, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 7, 2016
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: EVA London 2016: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
• ISBN: 9781780173443
• Keywords: time, temporality, interaction design, experience, research through design, visualisation
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• Additional Information: Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : EVA London 2016 Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
• Contract Date: Nov 3, 2016