REFSQ 2020 - Live Study: REFSQ 2020 - Live Study Italian National Research Council (CNR) Pisa, Italy, March 24-27, 2020 |
Conference website | https://refsq.org/submissions/call-for-live-studies |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=refsq2020livestudy |
Submission deadline | November 25, 2019 |
The REFSQ conference has a tradition of a special plenary session for conducting a “live study” involving the conference attendees (typically 50-80). Historically, a live study has been a (controlled) experiment relevant to requirements engineering. An “online survey” and Focus group study have also been conducted during the conference days.
The live study, conducted in a 90-minute session, engages all the voluntary conference attendees present in the session.
For REFSQ 2020, we add the possibility of conducting a “user study” for evaluating requirements engineering tools.
This Call thus invites submissions of proposals for conducting a live study within the framework defined above.
Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit:
Live study proposal (max 8 pages): It should address the following items at least:
1) Plan and Design
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Research problem
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Type of study (e.g., experiment, online survey, focus group study, etc.)
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Research goal
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Research questions, including any hypothesis
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Population of interest (i.e., target of generalisation)
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Description or profile of the intended subjects: prerequisites for being a subject, such as experience, background, etc.
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Study design, e.g.:
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For an experiment: research question, hypothesis, control, treatment, variables, randomisation, etc.
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For a focus group study: sample questions, group partitions if any, coordination, etc.
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For an online survey: sample questions, rationale, survey length (time), etc.
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For a user study: research questions, variables, measures, tasks, training(offline, 30-minute session, both), etc.
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Note: All participants present in the session should be involved in some manner, e.g., as one large group, or two or more smaller groups in parallel whose results are then possibly integrated and shared with the plenary group. The group partitioning (if any), result integration (if any), result-sharing with the attendees, the process mechanics, etc., are part of study design.
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Study methods and procedures
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Equipment and infrastructure needed for performing the live study: PCs, software, flipcharts, Internet, etc.
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The type of data that would be gathered
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The type of analysis that would be carried out on the gathered data
2) Relevance and Feasibility of the study
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Relevance of study for research and/or for practice
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Benefits to the subjects of participating in the study, including incentives
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Plan to make publicity of the study if selected, and to attract respondents at the conference
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Sharing of preliminary and summary results with attendees during the conference
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Dissemination of the results the conference attendees following the conference
3) About the researchers
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Record of past empirical studies performed by the submitters
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Role of the proposed study in a generic research plan (e.g., it is expected to test a theory, to explore an emergent research topic, …)
Submission
Submissions should be in PDF, and formatted according to the CEUR Proceedings Style: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/samplestyles/
Please use the LaTeX style file: onecolceurws.sty
- And it should be submitted via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=refsq2020livestudy .
Committees
Program Committee
- Dan Berry University of Waterloo, Canada
- Alejandro Catalá Universidad de Santiago, Spain
- Daniela Cruzes SINTEF, Norway
- 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
Organizing committee
Nelly Condori Fernandez, Universidade da Coruña, Spain; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Luisa Mich, University of Trento, Italy