Thu 4 Sep 2025 17:10 - 17:30 at Salon de Grados - Personas Chair(s): Jennifer Horkoff

Neurodiversity, increasingly recognized in society, encompasses a range of neurological differences, including autism, ADHD, and dyslexia. In software engineering, addressing neurodiversity is crucial to designing accessible and inclusive products that accommodate diverse user needs. Despite growing interest, a clear understanding of how to create neurodivergent-inclusive software remains underdeveloped. To help bridge this gap, we developed a conceptual model that identifies key neurodivergent concepts and relationships to guide software requirements elicitation. This model was evaluated through a survey involving 100 participants, including 37 neurodivergent individuals. These initial evaluation results are encouraging and indicate the model has the potential to advance the creation of software accessible to neurodivergent users. Moreover, the survey also revealed several necessary improvements towards successful requirements elicitation support. To this end, we envision addressing the completeness of the collected information and identifying contradictions between accommodation strategies. Based on the complete conceptual model, we will create a requirements elicitation method on top of traditional elicitation methods, such as focus groups or workshops. Additionally, we will build an elicitation tool on top of large language models, allowing requirements engineers to effectively elicit neurodivergent-inclusive requirements.

Thu 4 Sep

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16:00 - 17:30
PersonasResearch Papers / RE@Next! Papers / Journal-First at Salon de Grados
Chair(s): Jennifer Horkoff Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg
16:00
30m
Paper
The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny: Investigating Diversity Aspects of LLM-Generated Personas for Requirements Engineering
Research Papers
Christopher Lazik Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Ines Nunes , Lars Grunske Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Thomas Kosch Utrecht University, Aaron Ziglowski Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Charlotte Kauter Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Alina Pryma Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Christopher Katins Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Pre-print
16:30
20m
Paper
Who uses personas in requirements engineering: The practitioners’ perspective
Journal-First
Yi Wang School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Chetan Arora Monash University, Xiao Liu School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Thuong Hoang School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Vasudha Malhotra Deakin University, Ben Cheng School of Information Technology, Deakin University, John Grundy Monash University
Link to publication Pre-print
16:50
20m
Paper
Continuous Data-Driven Personas Generation: An LLM-based Knowledge Graph Approach
RE@Next! Papers
Ryota Sugiyama Waseda University, Hironori Washizaki Waseda University, Naoyasu Ubayashi Waseda University, Ryoko Tanahashi Waseda University, Mai Hirabayashi Waseda University, Satoshi Okuda , Ken Toriumi
17:10
20m
Paper
Envisioning a Requirements Elicitation Method for Neurodivergent-Inclusive Software
RE@Next! Papers
Inês Rocha NOVA LINCS & DI -- Nova School of Science and Technology, Ana Moreira NOVA University of Lisbon and NOVA LINCS, João Araújo NOVA LINCS, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Grischa Liebel Reykjavik University