Live Study track at REFSQ 2020

                               Nelly Condori-Fernandez1, 2 and Luisa Mich3

                                       Universidade da Coruña, Spain1
                                        n.condori.fernandez@udc.es
                               Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands2
                                     n.condori-fernandez@vu.nl

                                          University of Trento, Italy3
                                             luisa.mich@unitn.it


   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.

   The authors are going to introduce their live study to the REFSQ 2020 attendees and conduct their
studies according to their proposed plans. Preliminary results of the two studies will be shared with the
REFSQ 2020 participants within the closing session of the conference.


Acknowledgements
We are particularly grateful to the REFSQ 2020’s Programme Co-Chairs (Nazim Madhavji and Liliana
Pasquale), our Local Organization Co-chairs (Alessio Ferrari, Stefania Gnesi), and Publicity co-chairs
(Muneera Bano and Davide Fucci). Also, we want to thank all the members of the Live Study
Programme Committee.


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

Copyright © 2020 for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0
International (CC BY 4.0).
In: M. Sabetzadeh, A. Vogelsang, S. Abualhaija, M. Borg, F. Dalpiaz, M. Daneva, N. Condori-Fernandez, X. Franch,
D. Fucci, V. Gervasi, E. Groen, R. Guizzardi, A. Herrmann, J. Horkoff, L. Mich, A. Perini, A. Susi (eds.): Joint
Proceedings of REFSQ-2020 Workshops, Doctoral Symposium, Live Studies Track, and Poster Track, Pisa, Italy, 24-
03-2020, published at http://ceur-ws.org