Nelly Condori-Fernandez n.condori-fernandez@vu.nl 0 1 Luisa Mich luisa.mich@unitn.it 0 1 Universidade da Coruña 0 1 Spain 0 1 The Netherlands 0 1 Live Study Programme Committee Dan Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada Alejandro Catalá, Universidad de Santiago, Spain Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Maya Daneva, University of Twente, The Netherlands Andrea Herrmann, Hermann & Ehrlich, Germany Jennifer Horkoff, Chalmers University, Sweden Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid , Spain Nicole Novielli , University of Bari, Italy Barbara Paech, University of Heidelberg , Germany University of Trento , Italy 2020

The REFSQ conference has a tradition of a special plenary session for conducting a “live study” involving the conference attendees on a voluntary basis. The live study track aims to promote the application of empirical research methods to the exploration and evaluation of requirements engineering phenomena. A live study could be an experiment, a focus group, an interview-based study or an online survey related to requirement engineering. For REFSQ 2020, we added the possibility of conducting a “user study” for evaluating requirements engineering tools. REFSQ 2020 received two submissions for “live studies”. Three independent reviewers reviewed each of the submissions. After given a conditional acceptance to both proposals, the co-chairs of the track decided to accept both live study proposals for inclusion in the conference program: • "Exploring the influence of the emotional state on the efficiency for correcting defects in conceptual models: a Live Study”, authored by Franci Suni, Angela Mayhua, Maria Fernanda Granda. • “On the Perceived Harmfulness of Requirement Smells: An Empirical Study”, authored by Valentina Lenarduzzi, Davide Fucci, Daniel Mendez.

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