Smartphone-Based Platform for Affect Monitoring through Flexibly Managed Experience Sampling Methods Bailón Romacho, Carlos Damas Hermoso, Miguel Pomares Cintas, Héctor Emilio Sanabria Lucena, Daniel Perakakis, Pandelis Goicoechea, Carmen Ubago Jiménez, José Luis Affective state Flexible experience sampling Flexible esm Mobile sensing Mood Context The identification of daily life events that trigger significant changes on our affective state has become a fundamental task in emotional research. To achieve it, the affective states must be assessed in real-time, along with situational information that could contextualize the affective data acquired. However, the objective monitoring of the affective states and the context is still in an early stage. Mobile technologies can help to achieve this task providing immediate and objective data of the users’ context and facilitating the assessment of their affective states. Previous works have developed mobile apps for monitoring affective states and context, but they use a fixed methodology which does not allow for making changes based on the progress of the study. This work presents a multimodal platform which leverages the potential of the smartphone sensors and the Experience Sampling Methods (ESM) to provide a continuous monitoring of the affective states and the context in an ubiquitous way. The platform integrates several elements aimed to expedite the real-time management of the ESM questionnaires. In order to show the potential of the platform, and evaluate its usability and its suitability for real-time assessment of affective states, a pilot study has been conducted. The results demonstrate an excellent usability level and a good acceptance from the users and the specialists that conducted the study, and lead to some suggestions for improving the data quality of mobile context-aware ESM-based systems. 2020-04-29T11:46:03Z 2020-04-29T11:46:03Z 2019-08-05 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Bailon, C., Damas, M., Pomares, H., Sanabria, D., Perakakis, P., Goicoechea, C., & Banos, O. (2019). Smartphone-Based Platform for Affect Monitoring through Flexibly Managed Experience Sampling Methods. Sensors, 19(15), 3430. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/61705 10.3390/s19153430 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España MDPI