Introduction: Simon Mayer

Dear Aficionados of Planet-wide Autonomous Systems,

I'd also like to introduce myself: I'm Simon
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=SToKj14AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate>,
a professor of interaction- and communication-based systems at the
University of St.Gallen in Switzerland. With my team
<https://interactions.ics.unisg.ch/>, we're explorers of interactions among
devices, increasingly autonomous artificial agents, and people in
ubiquitous computing environments - and I find the Web, with its
demonstrated scalability, longevity and - most prominently - flexibility -
to be a smart contender for creating an environment for all these entities.
I see this as fitting in particular with the Web's focus on server-provided
local guidance (i.e., HATEOAS) which I (and several others in my team) like
to contrast with concepts from ecological psychology, and specifically with
affordance-driven interactions of animals with their environment.

I'm looking forward to our collaboration towards enabling autonomous agents
on the Web!!

Best wishes,
Simon


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Prof. Dr. Simon Mayer
Interaction- and Communication-based Systems
Institute of Computer Science
University of St.Gallen
https://interactions.ics.unisg.ch/