Second International Workshop on User Modeling

The Second International Workshop on User Modeling was held March 30-April 1, 1990 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The general chairperson was Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster of the University of Saarbrucken; the program and local arrangements chairperson was Dr. David Chin of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The workshop was sponsored by AAAI and the University of Hawaii, with AAAI providing eight travel stipends for students. An excellent response to the call for papers and participants resulted in 46 high quality submissions, of which 24 were selected for presentation and discussion led by invited commentators. Whereas the first user modeling workshop, held in Maria Laach, West Germany in 1986, focused on user modeling in natural language dialogue systems, the 1990 workshop covered a broader range of topics, including user modeling in tutoring systems and psychological foundations of user modeling.