Resumo:
This thesis presents how the information visualization can be used in the conception of new
types of books and articles reading in personal digital libraries and thus to become a powerful
way of knowledge discovery and construction, by the transformation in our reading practices.
Using a personal and little conventional approach, the methodology was built from the
original project that was re-signified during the research, considering that it is a challenge for
part of people, specifically students, professors and scientists, to read an abysmal amount of
books and articles for a widened formation. The proposed model, a System of Visualization of
Library, makes possible to analysis personal books that can be shown interactively by graphs
in two or three dimensions where reader people can have multiple points of view on their
books in library, as a way to sharpen human perception in searching standards, concordances,
dissonances, exclusions, convergences and dispersions of available knowledge. The proposed
System of Visualization of Library is original when it is the product of a set of tools that
makes possible the readers to immerge into the information of their specific interest. It is a
creative solution for the problem of how to read digital books and until complete personal
digital libraries in an abstract and not sequential way using to advantage of human cognitive
characteristics. The conclusion is that to accept the visualization of information as a new
reading paradigm is basic to let us intentionally transform the reading act as we know, this
secular practice, and thus to jump the current stage of computers use as typewriters and digital
incunabula reading.
