@INPROCEEDINGS{Stab0000:Basadaeir,
  author = {Matthew Stabeler and Graeme Stevenson and Simon Dobson and Paddy
	nixon},
  title = {Basadaeir: harvesting user profiles to bootstrap pervasive applications},
  booktitle = {The Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing - Late
	Breaking Results},
  address = {Nara, Japan},
DAYS=11,
MONTH=5,
YEAR=2009,

  abstract = {Many pervasive applications profile their users in order to obtain context or personalise content.
Traditionally, user profiles are built from scratch and individually maintained by the user. However,
in many cases, much of the information required by an application is readily available from existing
sources. We present Basadaeir, a tool that combines user profile data from a number of online
sources with a local location sensing system and provides an API for accessing the data. This allows
developers to quickly bootstrap pervasive systems and reduces their need to obtain data directly from
users. A preliminary user study suggests developers see the value in Basadaeir, and that reducing the
need to profile users promotes the rapid prototyping of people-centric applications.},

  keywords = {user profiling;data harvesting;mashup;rapid prototyping}
}