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# ICSOB-C 2025
Software Business: PhD Retreat and Posters & Demos Track 2025

## Companion Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Business: PhD Retreat, Posters & Demos Trackm (ICSOB-C 2025)

## Stuttgart, Germany, November 24-26, 2025.

Edited by

### Damian Kedziora 1
Peter Rodrigo Santos 2
Edona Elshan 3
Helena Olsson 4
Jan Bosch 5
Nirnaya Tripathi 6
Usman Rafiq 7

1 LUT University, Lahti, Finland
2 University of Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro Science, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
3 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
4 Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
5 Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
6 University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
7 Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

PREFACE ICSOB 2025 COMPANION PROCEEDINGS
The International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB) attracts both researchers and practitioners who are concerned with software-intensive business in different ways, and brings them together to share their findings and experiences from the field of software-intensive business. This edition of ICSOB was held in Stuttgart, Germany, in the period of November 24–26, 2025, with participating researchers and practitioners from all over the world. Along with the main track with research papers, the conference featured a PhD Retreat and a Posters and Demos track.

## Table of Contents

### PhD Retreat

- Preface

- Towards Capturing Software Purpose in AI-Native Software Development
  Daniel Planötscher
- Sustainable Transformation of IT Service Management: A PhD Research Plan for Green ITSM
  Larissa Koch de Souza, Georg Herzwurm
- An AI-Based Approach to Measuring Return on Investment in UX Design
  Gessé Evangelista, Luciana Zaina, Pekka Abrahamsson

### Posters & Demos

- Preface

- Fighting apps with apps: Analyzing tools for digital minimalism
  Lisa Schned, Manuel Wiesche
- Smart Homes, Real Needs: A Human-Centered Approach to Prioritizing User Requirements for Smart Home Business and Service Models
  Björn Konopka, Manuel Wiesche
- The use of Generative AI into User-Centered Design (UCD): Practices in Software Engineering
  Gessé Evangelista, Luciana Zaina, Pekka Abrahamsson

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