REWBAH 2022
Third International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Well-Being, Aging, and Health
August 16, 2022, Online!
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”
Are you curious about the earlier editions of the workshop? Please see:
The REWBAH 2020 web site and the IEEE proceedings
The REWBAH 2021 web site and the IEEE proceedings
See also this overview of REWBAH for practitioners (preprint), a product of REWBAH 2020 that recently appeared as: M. Levy et al., "Requirements Engineering for Well-Being, Aging, and Health: An Overview for Practitioners", IEEE Software, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 7-12, May-June 2021, https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2021.3058492
Thanks to the 30+ participants, including these smiling fellows!
Smart WiFi Sensing for Pervasive Elderly Care
With the ubiquitous deployment of Wi-Fi infrastructure in ordinary homes, WiFi-based contactless sensing has become an ideal way for elder care and health monitoring. While continuous daily activity monitoring has been found inaccurate and unstable using commodity Wi-Fi signals, due to well-known challenges in automatic activity segmentation and location/orientation independent activity recognition, hindering real applications of commodity WiFi-based solutions in home-based elder care. In this work, with the insight that an elder’s health status and living habits are closely related to one’s daily spatial-temporal activity patterns, we propose to build a continuous daily status monitoring system for elders using home-owned WiFi infrastructure. Specifically, we develop WiBorder – an accurate room-level localization algorithm to determine an elder’s location in real-time, and a continuous activity segmentation and identification system to report elder’s activity status, in such a way we could obtain an elder’s daily status log in the form of triple (time, location, activity) continuously and non-intrusively. By analyzing and visualizing an elder’s daily status log, we could inform an elder’s daily habits, health status, abnormal events and gradual behavior changes.
Short Bio of Prof. Daqing ZHANG
Daqing Zhang is a Chair Professor with Peking University, China and Telecom SudParis, France. His research interests include ubiquitous computing, context-aware computing, big data analytics and Intelligent IoT. He has published more than 280 technical papers in leading conferences and journals, where his work on context model and WiFi-based sensing theory is widely accepted by pervasive computing, mobile computing and service computing communities. His research work got over 23,200 citations with an H-index of 77 (Google Scholar). He is the winner of the Ten Years CoMoRea Impact Paper Award at IEEE PerCom 2013 and Ten Years Most Influential Paper Award at IEEE UIC 2019, the Distinguished Paper Award of IMWUT (Ubicomp 2021), Honorable Mention Award at ACM UbiComp 2015 and 2016, etc.. He served as the general or program chair for more than a dozen of international conferences, and in the editorial board of IEEE Pervasive Computing, ACM TIST and ACM IMWUT. Daqing Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE and Member of Academy of Europe, he obtained his Ph.D. from University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy in 1996.
Program
All times are in the Melbourne (Australia) time zone (AEST, UTC+10). The workshop starts at 21:00 in Melbourne, 19:00 in Beijing, 13:00 in Paris, 12:00 in London, and 7:00 in Toronto.
Session 1: Welcome to REWBAH 2022 and Keynote
21:00 - 21:05: Welcome from the organizers
21:05 - 22:10: Keynote: Daqing Zhang, Smart Sensing for Pervasive Elderly Care
22:10 - 22:20: Break
Session 2: Requirements and Design Methods for Well-Being
22:20 - 22:40: Meira Levy, Sivan Spitzer and Michal Pauzner: Multifaceted Requirements Engineering: Developing A MESH Platform
22:40 - 23:00: Farhat-Ul-Ain, Vladimir Tomberg and Hugo Plácido da Silva: Towards Adapting Questionnaires for Long-Term Online Dynamic Monitoring of Patients
23:00 - 23:20: Katherine-Marie Robinson, Dr. Rachana Devkota and Dr. Jason Millar. A Participatory Design Methodology to Elicit Ageing in Place Stakeholder Concerns with Ambient Assistive Living (AAL) Devices
23:20 - 23:30: Break
Session 3: REWBAH Applications and Vision
23:30 - 23:50: Mashail N. Alkhomsan, Malak Baslyman and Mohammad Alshayeb. Toward Emotion-Oriented Requirements Engineering: A Case Study of a Virtual Clinics Application
23:50 - 24:10: Leon Radeck, Barbara Paech, Hans-Werner Wahl, Anna-Lena Schubert, Uwe Sperling, Franziska Kramer-Gmeiner and Markus Wettstein: Understanding IT-related Well-being, Aging and Health Needs of Older Adults with Crowd-RE
0:10 - 0:30: Hrvoje Belani, Petar Šolić and Toni Perković: Towards Ontology-Based Requirements Engineering for IoT-Supported Well-Being, Aging and Health
0:30 - 0:45: Jialiang Wei, Anne-Lise Courbis, Thomas Lambolais, Pierre Louis Bernard and Gérard Dray. Towards Boosting Requirements Engineering of a Health Monitoring App by Analysing Similar Apps: A Vision Paper
00:50 - 01:00: Break
Session 4: REWBAH for Sustainability and Onwards
1:00-1:30: Panel Discussion and Closing
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.
Submissions
REWBAH (pronounced roo-bah) is looking for papers in two general categories (in IEEE CS format):
Research/Experience/Review papers (8 to 10 pages including references)
Vision papers (4 to 6 pages, including references)
Important: papers submitted to the workshop must follow strictly the formatting instructions imposed by the publisher (LaTeX and Word templates are provided).
Submissions shall be done via EasyChair (rewbah2022). Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the REWBAH 2022 Program Committee. Preference will be given to submissions that emphasize informed, topic-relevant, and technically sound descriptions of important challenges and problems as opposed to just proposed solutions.
Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library as workshop proceedings. All authors of all accepted contributions will be asked to complete an electronic IEEE Copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera-ready versions from Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Acceptance of a paper implies that one of the authors registers for the workshop to present the submission; failure to do so by the early registration date will result in the paper being withdrawn from the workshop proceedings. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the workshop (e.g., by not placing it into the IEEE Xplore Digital Library) if the paper is not presented at the workshop.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission: Thursday May 12, 2022, AoE, May 26, 2022, AoE (let us know that you intend to submit!)
Paper Submission : Thursday May 19, 2022, AoE, May 26, 2022, AoE
Paper Notification: Friday, June 17, 2022, AoE
Camera Ready Due: Thursday, July 7, 2022, AoE
Workshop: August 16, online, as part of the RE'22 conference
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
Lin Liu
Program Chair
Tsinghua University (China)
Daniel Amyot
Organization Co-Chair
University of Ottawa, and
LIFE Research Institute (Canada)
Meira Levy
Organization Co-Chair
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design (Israel)
Eric Yu
Organization Co-Chair
University of Toronto (Canada)
Program Committee
Malak Baslyman, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
Hrvoje Belani, Ministry of Health, Croatia
Luiz Marcio Cysneiros, York University, Canada
Smita Ghaisas, Tata R&D, India
Eduard C. Groen, Fraunhofer Institute, IESE, Germany
Sylwia Kopczyńska, Poznań U. of Technology, Poland
Sumi Helal, University of Florida , USA
Lysanne Lessard, University of Ottawa, Canada
Jennifer McIntosh, Monash University, Australia
Sébastien Mosser, McMaster University, Canada
John Mylopoulos, University of Ottawa, Canada
Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Elena Navarro, University of Castilla, Spain
Ita Richardson, University of Limerick, Ireland
Kassem Saleh, University of Kuwait, Kuwait
Maria Spichkova, RMIT University, Australia
Kuldar Taveter, University of Tartu, Estonia
Jens Weber, University of Victoria, Canada
Szymon Wilk, Poznań U. of Technology, Poland