Fri 5 Sep 2025 14:30 - 14:50 at Salon de Grados - Inclusive and Empathic RE Chair(s): Maryam Rabie-Yeganeh

The growing number of older adults facing isolation, cognitive decline, and technological exclusion poses critical challenges for the design of inclusive digital systems. Despite increasing research interest in age-inclusive technology, requirements engineering (RE) methods remain largely inadequate for this vulnerable population due to cognitive, linguistic, ethical, and contextual mismatches. This paper identifies four key challenges in applying RE to older adults: variability in cognitive and linguistic capabilities, ethical and privacy risks, fragmented design guidelines, and inconsistencies in requirements elicitation processes. To address these issues, we propose a multidisciplinary, AI-guided framework with five interlinked components: a community-driven corpus, age-sensitive elicitation techniques, emotionally intelligent tools for requirement creation, ethical awareness indicators, and inclusive validation processes. Our vision aims to foster technologies that are accessible, respectful, emotionally resonant, and practically effective for aging users, bridging the gap between RE research and real-world systems that empower older adults.

Fri 5 Sep

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14:00 - 15:10
Inclusive and Empathic RERE@Next! Papers / Journal-First / Industrial Innovation Track / Research Papers at Salon de Grados
Chair(s): Maryam Rabie-Yeganeh FHNW & University of Zurich
14:00
30m
Paper
Requirements for Inclusive AI-Driven Recruitment: Lessons Learned From Industry Workshop
Industrial Innovation Track
Muneera Bano CSIRO's Data61, Didar Zowghi CSIRO's Data61 - University of Technology Sydney, Fernando Mourao SEEK, Sarah Kaur Portable Australia, Tao Zhang SEEK
14:30
20m
Paper
Technology Designed for Older Adults: You Can't Spell Stakeholder without Older!
RE@Next! Papers
Alicia M. Grubb Smith College, Valentina Nino Kennesaw State University, Israel Sánchez-Cardona Kennesaw State University, Paola Spoletini Kennesaw State University, Maria Valero Kennesaw State University
14:50
20m
Paper
Specification, Validation and Verification of Social, Legal, Ethical, Empathetic and Cultural Requirements
Journal-First
Sinem Getir Yaman University of York, UK, Pedro Ribeiro University of York, UK, Ana Cavalcanti University of York, Radu Calinescu University of York, UK, Colin Paterson , Beverley Townsend University of York