Health-related expenses often represent over 10% of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and this proportion is increasing according to the World Health Organisation. Many systems and services that promote health fail to engage people in the long term, and yet requirements engineering research in this area is sparse. Nowadays, with the post-COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and worldwide human conflicts having a massive impact on our health and well-being, particularly within the elderly population, well-being, ageing, and health (WBAH) is more relevant than ever.

The REWBAH workshop fosters discussion on requirements engineering to build software systems that not only support healthcare but also foster well-being, encourage patients and the general population to live according to healthy lifestyle recommendations, and address the specific needs of an ageing population. These systems can provide personalised, tailored behavioural change programs to reduce health risk factors.

More information: https://sites.google.com/view/rewbah2026 

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Long - Research/Experience/Review papers (8-10 pages, including references)
• Short - Vision papers (4-6 pages, including references)

List of Topics

• RE approaches (incl. methods, taxonomies/ontologies, models, standard/reusable requirements, ad-hoc solutions, AI aspects) that support multiple perspectives of positively contributing to WBAH under strict compliance and ethics scrutiny
• Methods for defining and monitoring requirements of systems and services that promote well-being or health.
• Requirements engineering implications of emerging technologies used for innovating in the health sector.
• Open research and industry challenges in WBAH, as well as validation objectives for proposed solutions.

Committees

Program Committee

• Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Hrvoje Belani, Ministry of Health, Croatia
• Katie Crowley, University of Limerick, Ireland
• Eduard C. Groen, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
• Emilio  Insfran, U. Politècnica de València, Spain
• Sylwia Kopczyńska, Poznan U. of Technology, Poland
• Lysanne Lessard, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Anuradha Madugalla, Deakin University, Australia
• Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Elena Navarro, University of Castilla, Spain
• Preethu Rose, TCS Research, India
• Maria Spichkova, RMIT University, Australia
• Kuldar Taveter, University of Tartu, Estonia
• Jens Weber, University of Victoria, Canada
• Szymon Wilk, Poznan U. of Technology, Poland
• Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
• Anna Zamansky, University of Haifa, Israel

Organizing committee

• Meira Levy, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Israel
• Samuel Fricker, FHNW, Switzerland
• Sofie Ouhbi, Uppsala University

Steering committee

• Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Lysanne Lessard, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada

Publication

The REWBAH 2026 proceedings will be published by IEEE (letter format).

Venue

The conference will be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'26) in Montreal, Canada.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to lmeira@shenkar.ac.il, samuel.fricker@fhnw.ch, and sofia.ouhbi@it.uu.se.