DIGITAL EXPERIMENTATION

Computational social science,built around the experiment.

SOCYVIA is a research platform conceived to connect experimental design, participant experience, behavioral observation and resulting data within one coherent digital research workflow.

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SOCYVIA RESEARCH FLOW

From research material to analyzable evidence.

SOCYVIA approaches the experiment as a connected system rather than a sequence of isolated tools.

Content

Research material and source inputs.

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Experiment

Conditions, stimuli and experimental logic.

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Participant

The experience presented to the participant.

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Behavior

Interactions, responses and recorded events.

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Data

Structured outputs produced by the experiment.

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Analysis

Inspection, interpretation and research outputs.

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THE SOCYVIA PHILOSOPHY

An experiment is more than what appears on the screen.

The material selected by the researcher, the way it is transformed into an experimental presentation, what the participant encounters, and the data eventually recorded all belong to the same methodological chain.

SOCYVIA is being shaped around that continuity: preserving the relationship between research decisions, experimental presentation, participant behavior and the evidence produced by the session.

Method before interface. Research question before measurement.

SOURCE

Source truth

The original research material remains conceptually distinct from the way it is later presented experimentally.

MANIPULATION

Experimental presentation

Conditions, treatments and stimuli define what the participant actually encounters during the experiment.

EXPERIENCE

Participant behavior

The participant produces interactions, responses and observable events within a specific experimental context.

EVIDENCE

Research data

Recorded outputs gain meaning through the path that produced them, not simply from their final numerical form.

RESEARCHER IN CONTROL

The platform supports the method. It does not replace it.

SOCYVIA is not intended to design research on behalf of the researcher. Its role is to provide an environment in which methodological decisions can be operationalized, observed and examined.

WHY SOCYVIA EXISTS

Research should feel like one process, not a collection of disconnected tools.

Digital experimentation often fragments the research process. Content may be prepared in one environment, experimental conditions in another, participant activity somewhere else, and the resulting data exported to a separate analytical workflow.

SOCYVIA emerged from a different proposition: the technical environment should follow the logic of the research process. The aim is to make the path from source material to participant experience and resulting evidence easier to understand, inspect and extend.

Not another layer between the researcher and the experiment — but an environment organized around the experiment itself.

Research material→

Experimental design→

Participant experience→

Observation→

Research data→

Analysis→

AN EVOLVING RESEARCH PLATFORM

Designed to grow only when the research requires it.

SOCYVIA is being developed as an extensible research environment. Capabilities are treated differently according to their real product status rather than being presented as finished features before they are ready.

IN DEVELOPMENTINTELLIGENCE LAYER

SOCYVIA AI

An integrated research-assistance layer being explored to support parts of the workflow while keeping methodological judgement in the hands of the researcher.

SOCYVIA

IN DEVELOPMENTEXTERNAL SIGNALS

Multimodal measurement

The platform is evolving toward physiological and visual measurement layers where their use is scientifically and methodologically justified.

SOCYVIA

CORE PRINCIPLEEXPERIMENTAL CONTEXT

Behavior first

Participant behavior and experimental context remain central. Additional signals should enrich interpretation rather than add complexity without purpose.

SOCYVIA

MULTIMODAL RESEARCH

From digital interaction tomeasurable response.

SOCYVIA is evolving toward connecting recorded behavior with physiological and visual measurement layers inside the same experimental context, when those measurements meaningfully serve the research question.

EXPERIMENTAL ARCHITECTURE

The experiment at the center. Measurement around it.

Sensors are not the starting point. The research question determines whether an additional measurement layer is needed.

EEG

NEURAL

OpenBCI

IN DEVELOPMENT

Targeted integration for brain electrical activity within multimodal research protocols.

Brain electrical activity

EDA / GSR

PHYSIOLOGICAL

EmotiBit

IN DEVELOPMENT

Targeted integration for electrodermal and physiological signals associated with experimental context.

Electrodermal activity

SOURCE

DESIGN

BEHAVIOR

DATA

SOCYVIA

EXPERIMENTAL CORE

EYE TRACKING

VISUAL

Pupil Labs

UNDER EVALUATION

Targeted integration for gaze and eye-movement data within digital experiments and visual tasks.

Gaze & ocular behavior

METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE

Measurement should not precede the research question. A signal is added when it contributes meaningfully to interpretation, not simply to increase the volume of data.

RESEARCH TRACE

Every experiment leaves a trace.

Data does not appear at the end of an experiment without context; its meaning depends on the decisions and events that produced it.

SOURCE

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DESIGN

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PARTICIPANT

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BEHAVIOR

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DATA

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ANALYSIS

OpenBCI, EmotiBit and Pupil Labs represent current integration directions. Final compatibility status will only be published after each integration has been implemented and tested in SOCYVIA.

DEVELOPER

Abdellah RIAD

Researcher

Computational Social Science & Research Technology

ABOUT THE PROJECT & DEVELOPER

When research questions meet technology, the tool becomes part of the method.

SOCYVIA took shape within an interdisciplinary research path spanning media, sport, technology and experimental inquiry. As that work moved from studying attention and behavior toward objective forms of measurement, including electroencephalography (EEG), a broader need became clear: technology should not remain outside the research process, but participate in the architecture of the experiment itself.

From this perspective, SOCYVIA emerged as a research environment designed to connect source material with experimental design, participant experience with recorded behavior, and resulting data with the process that produced it. Its purpose is not to accumulate features for their own sake, but to create a technical structure that serves the scientific question and can expand whenever research demands a new layer of measurement or analysis.

Computational Social ScienceDigital ExperimentationResearch TechnologyBehavioral Measurement

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SOCYVIA

Start with the research question.Let the technology follow.

Experimental software becomes valuable when its technical architecture remains accountable to the logic of the research.

DOWNLOAD CENTER

SOCYVIA, ready to move from development into research.

A verified public release of SOCYVIA will be available here once the application reaches distribution-ready status. Each release will include its version information, system requirements, architecture and release notes.

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SOCYVIA

Public release

IN DEVELOPMENT

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CROSS-PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE

Designed for more than one operating system.

Listing a platform here does not imply release availability. Support status is confirmed only after a real build has been produced and tested.

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Windows

Architecturex64 / ARM64

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macOS

ArchitectureApple Silicon / Intel

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Linux

Architecturex64 / ARM64

Published compatibility should reflect what has actually been tested.

SOCYVIA RELEASE POLICY