Towards a Systematic Approach for Designing Gamification for RE

[Context and Motivation] RE presents several challenges and risks stemming from the required collaboration and knowledge transfer between many different stakeholders, including analysts, developers and customers. [Objectives] This research aims to address these challenges by developing a gamification framework for enhancing motivation among professional software developers and analysts, to perform RE. To provide a theoretical basis for the developed framework, we perform a systematic literature review, in order to understand motivation-related issues, and the use of gamification techniques, in the context of underperformed tasks in RE. [Preliminary Results]. This paper presents preliminary results based on a subset of this review, eliciting documented associations between motivation issues and RE tasks, and between motivation issues and gamification. [Contribution] The research will provide a theory-based framework for systematically designing RE environments embedding gamification techniques, so to motivate engagement, collaboration and knowledge sharing between the stakeholders involved in the RE process.