TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

A terminal device includes a display control unit that displays on a display unit, a display flake having a predetermined form to produce a visual effect and an information flake which indicates that there is notification information to be communicated to a user, where the information flake has a form identical or similar to the form of the display flake. It is possible that information flakes corresponding to different items of the notification information are displayed and a type of the notification information and/or an amount of information for each item of the notification information are determined. Each information flake may be displayed on the display unit in a manner such that the information flake has one or both of color and size which changes according to the results of the above determination.