UsARE 2014 - Second International Workshop on Usability and Accessibility focused Requirements Engineering

The IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference is the premier international forum for researchers, industrial practitioners, educators, and students to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, results and challenges in the field of requirements engineering (RE). UsARE workshop focuses on RE and HCI, and provides a platform for discussing issues which are relevant for both fields. The first workshop (UsARE 2012) was held on June 04, 2012 in conjunction with ICSE 2012 at Zurich, Switzerland. This year, UsARE 2014 will be held in conjunction with the 22nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2014) at Karlskrona, Sweden on August 26, 2014.
Usability and accessibility issues are common causes why software fails to meet user requirements. However, often requirements engineers still focus on functional requirements and might ignore to also elicit usability and accessibility requirements. This is a high risk, which can lead to project and software failure. Improving the usability and accessibility requirements later in a development stage is costly and time consuming. Targeting these concerns, the workshop envisions that research must address the proper integration of system usability and accessibility requirements into the requirements engineering process and also must focus on how to manage and control the evaluation of these requirements in a systematic way.
This year, the workshop focus is on mobile and distributed app and service development within the context of UsARE 2014.
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If you have any questions or comments, please send us an email using the following address: usare14-AT-hciv.de