Good requirements are an important precondition of successful software development. Novel ways to produce high-quality requirements that add value to the entire software development lifecycle are needed.

Most requirements development and management efforts focus on the production of textual descriptions. This approach has several disadvantages. First, text constitutes a language barrier, particularly a challenge for global companies. Second, text is an abstract form of communication and its interpretation is always based on experience, preconceptions, and digestability. Third, without proper tool support, requirements quickly become outdated, inconsistent, or overwhelmingly long.

This workshop builds on ideas of the First International Workshop on Multimedia Requirements Engineering (MeRE’06): Instead of considering writing as the foremost subject of requirements engineering, we stress understanding and evolution. Multimedia, which includes the universal meta-medium of text, may bring requirements "to life". The general theme of the workshop is communication and modeling of requirements in media other than text.