Live Studies at REFSQ 2019

                                     Maya Daneva

                          University of Twente, The Netherlands
                              m.daneva@utwente.nl


   The REFSQ conference has been promoting the application of empirical research
methods to the exploration and evaluation of requirements engineering phenomena.
As part of this, one of the traditions of the REFSQ conference is the organization
of a special plenary session for conducting a “live study” involving the conference
attendees on a voluntary basis. A live study could be a (controlled) experiment, a
focus group, an interview-based study or an online survey related to requirement
engineering.

   REFSQ 2019 received four submissions for “live studies”. Two independent
reviewers reviewed each of the submissions. A sub-committee then prioritized the live
study proposals based on various factors and two proposals were selected for inclusion
in the conference program:
    "Users perceptions on security and satisfaction requirements of context-aware
        applications: A online questionnaire“ authored by Denisse Muñante and Nelly
        Condori-Fernandez.
    “Assessing the Effect of Learning Styles on Risk Model Comprehensibility: A
        Controlled Experiment”, authored by Katsiarina Labunets and Nelly
        Condori-Fernandez .

   The study authors introduced their study to the REFSQ 2019 attendees and
conducted their studies according to their proposed plans. Preliminary results of the
two studies will be shared with the REFSQ 2019 participants within the allotted session
on Thursday, March 21, 2019.



Acknowledgements
I am particularly grateful to the REFSQ 2019’s Programme Co-Chairs, Eric Knauss and
Michael Goedicke, for including “Live Studies” in the overall REFSQ 2019
programme. I also thank all the members of the Live Study Programme Committee.
Finally, we are much indebted to all the volunteer participants in the two studies. It
is their expertise and insights into the subject matter that contributes to the authors’s
efforts to answer the research questions posed in the two studies.


Live Study Programme Committee
Maya Daneva (Chair) - University of Twente, The Netherlands
Dan Berry – University of Waterloo, Canada
Nelly Condori-Fernandez, University of Amsterdam,
the Netherlands and University of Coruna, Spain
Fabiano Dalpiaz, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Andrea Herrmann, Herrmann and Ehrlich, Germany
Jennifer Horkoff, Chalmers University, Sweden
Nazim Madhavji, University of Western Ontario, Canada