  Requirements engineering (RE) plays a crucial role in developing software
systems by bridging the gap between stakeholders' needs and system
specifications. However, effective communication and elicitation of stakeholder
requirements can be challenging, as traditional RE methods often overlook
emotional cues. This paper introduces a multi-modal emotion recognition
platform (MEmoRE) to enhance the requirements engineering process by capturing
and analyzing the emotional cues of stakeholders in real-time. MEmoRE leverages
state-of-the-art emotion recognition techniques, integrating facial expression,
vocal intonation, and textual sentiment analysis to comprehensively understand
stakeholder emotions. This multi-modal approach ensures the accurate and timely
detection of emotional cues, enabling requirements engineers to tailor their
elicitation strategies and improve overall communication with stakeholders. We
further intend to employ our platform for later RE stages, such as requirements
reviews and usability testing. By integrating multi-modal emotion recognition
into requirements engineering, we aim to pave the way for more empathetic,
effective, and successful software development processes. We performed a
preliminary evaluation of our platform. This paper reports on the platform
design, preliminary evaluation, and future development plan as an ongoing
project.
