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An innumerable number of individual choices go into discovering a new book.There are unmistakably two groups of booklovers: those who like to searchonline, follow other people's latest readings, or simply react to a system'srecommendations; and those who love to wander between library stacks, losethemselves behind bookstore shelves, or simply hide behind piles of(un)organized books. Depending on which group a person may fall into, there aretwo distinct and corresponding mediums that inform his or her choices: digital,that provides efficient retrieval of information online, and physical, a moretactile pursuit that leads to unexpected discoveries and promotes serendipity.How could we possibly bridge the gap between these seemingly disparate mediumsinto an integrated system that can amplify the benefits they both offer? Inthis paper, we present the BookVIS application, which uses book-related dataand generates personalized visualizations to follow users in their quest for anew book. In this new redesigned version, the app brings associative visualconnections to support intuitive exploration of easily retrieved digitalinformation and its relationship with the physical book in hand. BookVIS keepstrack of the user's reading preferences and generates a dataSelfie as anindividual snapshot of a personal taste that grows over time. Usability testinghas also been conducted and has demonstrated the app's ability to identifydistinguishable patterns in readers' tastes that could be further used tocommunicate personal preferences in new "shelf-browsing" iterations. Byefficiently supplementing the user's cognitive information needs while stillsupporting the spontaneity and enjoyment of the book browsing experience,BookVIS bridges the gap between real and online realms, and maximizes theengagement of personalized mobile visual clues.

Visual Companion for Booklovers