Overview

Health-related expenses often represent over 10% of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and this proportion is increasing according to the World Health Organization. Many systems and services that promote health fail to engage people in the long term, and yet requirements engineering research in this area is sparse. Nowadays, when the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a massive worldwide impact, influencing our health and well-being, in particular the elderly population, Well-Being, Health, and Aging (WBAH) has become more relevant than ever.

The REWBAH workshop fosters discussion related to requirements engineering resulting from the need to build software systems that not only support healthcare, but also foster well-being, encourage patients and the population in general to live according to healthy lifestyle recommendations, and address the specific needs of an aging population. These systems can provide personalized and tailored behavioral change programs for decreasing health risk factors. 

This theme is also in line with the objectives of the American Healthy People 2030 Framework on health promotion and disease prevention, with a vision for “A society in which all people can achieve their full potential for health and well-being across the lifespan”. Well-being is part of a more holistic definition of health that, according to the World Health Organization, is “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’’. 

The workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from Software and Requirements Engineering, Medicine, Health Sciences, Psychology, and other relevant disciplines. This workshop is open to the public. The workshop goals as well as the workshop multidisciplinary audience are well aligned with the theme of Requirements Engineering (RE) conference 2022, namely “Building Bridges Between Disciplines: Requirements for Transdisciplinarity”

Goals

The goals of this workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Developing approaches (incl. methods, taxonomies / ontologies, models, standard / reusable requirements) that support multiple perspectives of well-being, aging, and health;

• Developing methods for defining and monitoring requirements of systems and services that promote well-being or health;

• Considering systematically evidence-based factors of health risk reductions in systems and services;

• Developing measures or metrics to evaluate the re-turn on investment of models, methods, tools, or techniques that improve patients’ engagement with systems related to well-being or health;

• Determining whether and how well-being, age, and values can be used as measurable quality properties for requirements;

• Improving communication and aligning processes among requirements engineering, patients, caregivers and clinicians; 

• Identifying open research and industry challenges, as well as validation objectives for proposed solutions; and

• Mitigating the influence of COVID-19 pandemic on our well-being and determining how technology can address health-related challenges.

Topics of Interest

• Identifying, prioritizing, and integrating relevant health-related challenges;

• Elicitating generic psycho-social and demographic concepts and their potential effects on clinical goals and actions;

• Health-related requirements acquisition, specification, analysis, and validation;

• Formal and informal modeling of health-related policies and requirements;

• Traceability and alignment between clinical guidelines, well-being definitions, aging/health challenges and requirements;

• Coordinating requirements change and the evolution of health-related guidelines, policies, and regulations;

• Considering age and aging in requirements engineering activities;

• Integrating guidelines and requirements engineering processes;

• Introducing existing products and services into new requirements;

• Requirements for artificial intelligence components in well-being, aging, and health systems and services;

• Requirements verification: monitoring, documenting, and auditing; 

• Evaluating the social, mental, health and economic benefits obtained through the use of requirements models, tools, or techniques; 

• Users’ perceptions and sustainable usage of health-related system;

• Risk, compliance assurance, and system certification;

• Meaningful, actionable, and trustworthy health-related data management;

• Health-related processes innovation and transformation;

• Fairness and social inclusion, cohesion, and solidarity;

• Requirements for global information systems that can help people, decision makers, and researchers during pandemics; 

• RE for ecological determinants of health.

Organization Committee