Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop, Toward User-Oriented Agents: Research Directions and Challenges

TL;DR

This report summarizes the discussions and identified research directions from a workshop focused on advancing user-oriented intelligent agents, highlighting future challenges and research priorities in the field.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of future research directions and challenges for user-oriented intelligent agents as identified by leading researchers in the field.

Findings

Identified key research areas for user-oriented agents

Outlined major future challenges in intelligent agent development

Recommended collaborative research strategies

Abstract

This USER Workshop was convened with the goal of defining future research directions for the burgeoning intelligent agent research community and to communicate them to the National Science Foundation. It took place in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania on October 24 and 25, 2019 and was sponsored by National Science Foundation Grant Number IIS-1934222. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or future directions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The 27 participants presented their individual research interests and their personal research goals. In the breakout sessions that followed, the participants defined the main research areas within the domain of intelligent agents and they discussed the major future directions that the research in each area of this domain should take