Wed 19 Aug 2026 13:45 - 14:15 at A-1300 - Human Values & Ethical Requirements Chair(s): Julian Frattini

Monitoring humans, for example, their movement or location, is essential for safe and efficient human-machine collaboration in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). This information allows CPS to ensure safety properties, adapt their behaviour dynamically, and coordinate with humans. To ensure that the design of a CPS respects ethical principles and the privacy of its stakeholders, system requirements, particularly those related to human monitoring, must reflect the human values of all involved stakeholders. However, human values are often underrepresented in Software Engineering – particularly during requirements elicitation and system design, crucial phases when introducing ethically critical functionality. Stakeholder values are often implicit and conflicting, yet rarely systematically captured. Furthermore, unstructured natural language requirements introduce ambiguity and vagueness, complicating conflict resolution. To address these problems, we propose HM-Req, a novel requirements elicitation framework including a Controlled Natural Language (CNL) for defining human monitoring requirements. These requirements are then augmented with human values from relevant stakeholders and integrated into a Value Dashboard to detect potential conflicts that require further discussion and resolution. Validation results, applying the CNL to different datasets and conducting a survey and expert interview, confirms the CNL’s ability to capture diverse human monitoring requirements and show HM-Req’s usefulness for requirements elicitation activities.

Presentation Slides (RE26--HMReq-presentation.pdf)10.56MiB

Wed 19 Aug

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13:45 - 15:15
Human Values & Ethical RequirementsIndustrial Innovation Papers / Research Papers at A-1300
Chair(s): Julian Frattini Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
13:45
30m
Talk
HM-Req: A Framework for Embedding Values within CPS Human Monitoring Requirements
Research Papers
Zoe Pfister University of Innsbruck, Ruth Breu University of Innsbruck, Michael Vierhauser University of Innsbruck
Pre-print File Attached
14:15
30m
Talk
CRAYON: Supporting the Elicitation of Pluralistic Normative Requirements for Autonomous Systems
Research Papers
Laila Mahmoud Daw Abodinar Polytechnique Montreal, Paul Adubi Polytechnique Montreal, Armstrong Foundjem École Polytechnique de Montréal, Reem Ayad University of Toronto, Benoit Hogedez Polytechnique Montreal, Isobel Standen University of York, Beverley Townsend University of York, Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal, Lina Marsso Polytechnique Montreal
14:45
30m
Talk
How Value-Aware Is the Software Industry?
Industrial Innovation Papers
Elisa Schmid Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannah Deters Leibniz University Hannover, Marc Herrmann Leibniz University Hannover, Kurt Schneider Leibniz Universität Hannover, Software Engineering Group