Facilitating Inclusive RE

The FIRE workshop aims to stimulate a discussion on the ways in which the requirements engineering (RE) toolbox with its heavy reliance on verbal techniques can be expanded and refined to be more inclusive and thus better support the needs of special groups of people as well as other species, entities and environments. For example, children with developmental disorders, adults with cognitive/physical impairments, people encumbered by socio-cultural, physical, political or security constraints, animals, etc.

Inclusive RE practices are practices going beyond verbal communication, embracing the otherness of a group of users and extending empathy and understanding to these users.

The FIRE workshop aims to initiate a discourse between researchers and practitioners working in domains where iRE practices are required, towards the creation of a wider, more refined RE toolbox facilitating inclusiveness.