REWBAH 2026

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 post COVID-19 pandemic, climate changes, and worldwide human conflicts have massive worldwide impact, influencing our health and well-being, in particular within the elderly population, WBAH is even 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 ad-dress the specific needs of an aging population. These systems can provide personalized and tailored behavioral change pro-grams 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 2026, namely “Sustainability and workforce transformation in the era of generative AI: How to prepare for a future in collaboration with AI tools and assistants.” By adopting a digital humanism perspective, building on insights from REWBAH’25 panel discussion, the workshop aims to revisit traditional requirements engineering approaches needed to develop health and well-being systems to effectively address how Generative AI is reshaping the WBAH domain. 

Goals

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

• Develop RE approaches (incl. methods, taxonomies/ontologies, models, standard/reusable requirements, ad-hoc solutions, AI aspects) that support multiple perspectives of positively contributing to WBAH under strict compliance and ethics scrutiny.

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

• Explore the requirements engineering implications of emerging technologies used for innovating in the health sector.

• Identify open research and industry challenges, as well as validation objectives for proposed solutions.

Organization Committee