REVITAL

General aim and outcomes

By respecting the fact that humans’ online activities (i.e. people’s communications and interactions on social media) is now crossing and interacting with offline people’s everyday activities, within the REVITAL project the aim is to examine simultaneously people’s activities and their respective emotions in order to capture and recognize unseen patterns and behavioural models. In this sense the REVITAL main outcome is the design of a framework which permit the analysis of humans' emotional state and behaviour in both their offline and online activities. Overall the main outcomes of the REVITAL are summarized as follows:

• Web and mobile application for monitoring humans' emotions in their everyday offline activities.
• Mechanism suitable for extracting content be produced by humans in online social networks, namely Faceboook and Twitter.
• Methodologies suitable for capturing and understanding humans' emotions as these are imprinted both in their offline and online activities.
• Approaches for integrating and simultaneously analysing humans' emotional states and behaviours in offline and online activities (e.g. common patterns, deviations).

Results and Dissemination

Publications

• Kafetsios, K., Chatzakou, D., & Vakali, A., Emotional experience in real and virtual social interactions: An event sampling study, Oral presentation in the Biennial Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion, University of Geneva, Switzerland, July 8-10

Brochure

• REVITAL brochure