Barcelona, Spain, April Preface: Twelfth International Workshop Requirements Engineering (CreaRE 2025) on Creativity in Maya Daneva 0 Andrea Herrmann 0 Kurt Schneider 0 Patrick Mennig 0 University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands Herrmann & Ehrlich, Germany Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany Fraunhofer IESE , Kaiserslautern , Germany 2025 7 2025 0000 0001

Where do great requirements come from? Technological advancements in the form of amazing new software features, disruptive innovations, emerging new fields such as the Internet of Things and smart ecosystems, and radical enhancements to existing software all rely on one thing: innovative ideas that reinvent the work context, process or experience. However, most requirements elicitation techniques help to identify only the basic requirements that an IT system should fulfill or conservative ideas for the incremental improvement of a system, all with little innovation potential.

 1. Workshop Theme and Motivation 2. Goals of the Workshop 3. Workshop Topics

As the CreaRE workshop brings together the concepts of creativity and requirements, its topics include, but are not restricted to:  The cooperation of humans and Artificial Intelligence in being creative in RE  Analyzing how distributed online collaboration has advanced creativity in doing RE, for example through changes in our communication, collaboration, co-creation, crowdRE and tool use  The application of known, new or adapted creativity techniques in RE activities  Creative use of techniques originally designed for other purposes, but now applied as RE techniques, and/or creativity enhancers, especially for requirements elicitation  Promoting stakeholder participation in RE activities through creativity techniques  Using the creativity of the crowd  Gamification and creativity for RE  Using creativity techniques to enhance user experience  Tool support for creativity enhancement  Context dependency of creativity and creativity techniques  Experiences with and considerations about creativity techniques in RE in industry  RE techniques that enable or support creativity

 4. Program

The CreaRE 2025 program features one interactive session, three research papers and a discussion session:   interactive session: Alexander Rachmann: Architecture Decision Map (ADM) Luisa Mich: Choosing a Creativity Technique for Requirements Elicitation: an updated framework  Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel: How reliance on GenAI might limit human creativity and critical thinking in different fields  Giovanna Broccia, Alessandro Borselli, Maria Rosaria Cefaloni, Franco Delcorno and Alessio

Ferrari: Can Large Language Models Assist GUI Designers? An Experience Report  Discussion: Future of the creativity in RE in the days of AI-human-collaboration Interested readers are invited to visit the workshop’s website: https://creare.iese.de/

 5. Program Committee

Our sincere gratitude goes out to the members of our program committee:  Raian Ali Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar  Carina Alves Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil  Dan Berry University of Waterloo, Canada  Fabiano Dalpiaz University of Utrecht, The Netherlands  Rodrigo Falcao Fraunhofer IESE, Germany  Meira Levy Shenkar College, Israel  Luisa Mich University of Trento, Italy

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