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

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