This thesis examines the relationship between work/life balance and Smartphones (Blackberry, iPhone, Android etc.) Academic research has areas where not much research has been done previously including the qualitative research on work/life balance, positive crossover of work/life balance, newness of Smartphone technology, and consequences of constant connectivity. This study hopes to eliminate some of the gaps in these areas of research and proposes two research questions:  So what does owning a Smartphone mean for work life and home life?  Most importantly can this phone help people towards or assist with the balance they are so looking for or do the phones not impact this balance and just assist in the work life and home life realms separately? A qualitative approach using constructionist and interpretivist views were used to conduct the research. Empirical material was collected during phone interviews with participants in the USA, while supporting material was gathered from conference papers, academic articles, websites, and textbooks. There are two major themes within this paper, work/life balance and Smartphone technology. For work/life balance a common understanding was reached that work and personal life should be kept happy but that doesn’t mean equal.  Also discussed is research about people that put up boundaries in their lives to try and separate things, one group of people likes to have work and personal separate but one group likes them combined.  Research also presents that there are consequences for setting up boundaries but that having the ability to choose where these boundaries are makes for a much happier situation.  On the technology side of research there is support for these devices being used to manage people’s different selves through communication from being more connected to people to feeling left out when the technology is not there. Also mentioned is how people adapt the devices to fit new and unique situations that the devices may not have been intended to be used for.

Antal sålda smartphones har ökat explosionsartat de senaste åren, i samma takt ökar ocksåintresset för mobila lösningar i form av mobila applikationer. Det finns huvudsakligen tvåtyper av mobilapplikationer, den specialsydda applikationen (eng. ”native application”) ochwebbapplikationen. Denna kandidatuppsats har undersökt vilken typ av mobilapplikation enintressent ska välja att utveckla när intressenten väl har bestämt sig för att ta fram en mobillösning. För att undersöka detta utfördes en kvantitativt inriktad webbaseradenkätundersökning som fick 108 respondenter. Enkätundersökningen visar hurrespondenterna använder sig av sina smartphones, hur de reflekterar runt den mobilaapplikationsfrågan och hur deras vanor ser ut när det gäller användande av mobilaapplikationer.Resultatet visar att respondenterna väljer specialsydda applikationer framförwebbapplikationer trots att specialgjorda applikationer har fler nackdelar änwebbapplikationer för både användarna och utvecklarna. Det finns dock en tredje typ sombör lyftas fram: hybridapplikationen, som är en kombination av de två förstnämnda.Intressenten bör därför i de flesta fall välja att låta utveckla en hybridapplikation eftersom ensådan dels är ekonomiskt snällare än en ren applikation och dels behagar respondenternagenom att ”lura” dem att tro att de använder en vanlig applikation.

The thesis "User habits of smartphone owners in terms of consumption of media content" aims to expertly uncover a deeper description of user habits of today's smartphone users, and focus primarily on aspects of the consumption of media content on these devices, such as applications, games, web browsing, news, audiovisual content and social networks. The purpose is to give a complete picture of today's smartphone users as consumers of new technological media and to reveal the spectrum of influence that these smartphones have on their users, whether in positive or negative connotations. Using the methods of qualitative research interviews were conducted with representatives of the younger users of smartphones, specifically from Generation Y. The result of the investigation was to identify and describe on what media content representatives of this generation consume on their smartphones and how they reflect their own smartphone usage. It has been shown that most young people interact with their surroundings through social networks on smartphones and also that some of them would be hardly able to live without them, although they were aware of strong smartphones impact on themselves and their broader cultural environment.

The smart phone has become the major device for taking photos and filming. There are 800 hours of videos uploaded to YouTube every minute, and more YouTubers participating in generating videos. Because it is an era of we-media, there will be more and more people using video to promote himself. Nowadays, people can shoot 4k video by smartphones, but there’s no solution for people who want to shoot videos with good audio quality, without worrying about the issue of noise, time consuming, post-editing, expensive tools and long distance filming. This new product called WiMic, a wireless noise-reduction recorder for video-shooting on smartphones. The target audience will be YouTubers, video makers, travelers, families, bands, sports. Anyone who want to shoot good videos with great and clear audio quality will need wireless recorder like WiMic. In addition, there are some main features, such as noise reduction by ANR and ANC, light weight, long distance of audio recording, three-sound-tracks simultaneous recording and supporting live streaming, which help video-shooting lovers to produce better audio quality videos without noise and share them with friends and audience.

ICTs have enabled increased mobility and created a new era of workplace connectivity. Due to changes in work organization, global operations, increased mobility, and the new opportunities they are creating; work requires more coordination, more travel and a higher frequency of boundary spanning. ICTs have infiltrated into the personal life of individuals, while similarly, having an increasing impact on how organizations manage their workers‘ work-life balance. This research investigates the work boundary negotiation process in ICT-enabled work.Using an in-depth case study supplemented with visual data, this thesis studies the case of Sigma, an international consulting firm, that serves clients located in a large geographical area. It explores how consultants exhibiting mobile work practices, use ICTs to negotiate work boundaries. It draws on the structurational model of technology and complements it with the boundary object construct. The utilisation of this combined approach allows further understanding of work boundary negotiation.The research reveals that some ICTs as technological artefacts are boundary objects bridging between different groups of actors, crossing work boundaries, and allowing actors to negotiate their work boundaries while challenging traditional boundaries. Thus, allowing consultants to use their ICTs (specifically their smartphone) to negotiate their work boundaries on a need to basis. The boundary negotiation process (as revealed by the structuration process) is the means by which consultants try to make the most out of existing social structures – in this case specifically domination – in their organizational context. The ICT becomes a source of power and is mainly used to manifest domination over available resources. Consultants use them to maintain control over their life, increase their legitimacy and convey that they are professional experts. ICTs allow consultants to continuously redefine their work boundaries which become dynamic, fluid and contextual; the research reaffirms the sociotechnical nature of work boundaries.The thesis also develops a conceptual model of work boundary negotiation that conceptually illustrates how boundary negotiation is the outcome of the structuration process and the negotiation of existing structures of domination, legitimation and signification.

The main objective of this diploma thesis is to design and develop a cloud hosted service that allows developers of games for Windows Phone 7 platform to extend their products with social and competitive aspect using Platform as a Service solution Windows Azure for hosting the backend of this system. The first part of the thesis analyses systems that are available on the market and that are providing similar services for the target platform. Based on this analysis, functional and general requirements for the future application are specified in the second part. Based on these requirements, use case analysis is made. The third part of the thesis is dedicated to description of the most important features, APIs and specifics of the Windows Phone 7 software platform. The fourth part is dedicated to Windows Azure as a Cloud platform both in terms of most important services, their characteristics and APIs used to utilise them and in terms of their business and pricing conditions. The fifth part addresses the architecture and the most important implementation details of the application. The final part contains the user guide for both the Windows Phone 7 application and for developers interested in using the library containing the API during the development of their game. The output of this thesis is the designed and implemented application with client-server architecture ready to have its backend deployed in Windows Azure environment and to have its frontend deployed on Windows Phone 7 devices. The client part of the system is comprised of a library intended for developers of games, which encapsulates the API needed to access the backend on the Internet, and a graphic frontend intended for end users. The server part, which contains most of the application logic, has REST interface. The applications architecture allows future development in terms of new functionality and expansion on more client platforms.

The main objective of diploma thesis is to describe and analyze the issue of mobile devices and mobile applications, focusing on their usage in the information system of enterprise in terms of deployment rules for security, mobile device management and enterprise operation in implementing mobile policy in to business. The diploma deals with aspects related to the deployment of mobile enterprise policy in terms of choosing the right operator, a suitable mobile platform, mobile device management and applications to ensure optimal information security in company. The aim is compare Czech operators and most frequent mobile operating platforms in terms of business needs and determine the most appropriate mobile operator and mobile operating system suitable for the implementation of mobile policy in to business. Another goal is analyze and describe the method of mobile device management and applications, and to ensure their safety and universally describe the main advantages and disadvantages of deploying mobile policy in to business. The practical part is focused on the public inquiry to identify and analyze the current situation of enterprises in implementing mobile policies in the Czech Republic. Survey results are analyzed, described and summarized in the recommendations and alternative solutions for Czech companies for next years.

Till följd av den utveckling som skett hos digitalkameror och programvaror för bildbehandling de senaste åren har intresset för fotobaserad skanning (FBS) vuxit. I denna studie utvärderades FBS som ett alternativ till terrester laserskanning (TLS) för statisk deformationsmätning och relaterade till kavitationsskador på vattenturbinkolvar där volym och maxdjup mäts. En stor del av syftet var att det skulle göras med simpla förutsättningar så att metoden blir enkel att utföra och tillämpbar framförallt i industrimiljöer. Simulerade deformationer skapades på en bräda i trä med en plan omgivande yta och på en boll i kork för att också undersöka en välvd yta. Fotograferingen utfördes med icke-professionella kameror, en digitalkamera och en smartphonekamera. Objekten som undersöktes hade en matt textur, bilderna togs med stor övertäckning (80–100%) och ljusförhållandena var goda för att undvika skuggning och blänk i bilderna. Det som utvärderades i studien var hur många kodade markörer som bör användas som konnektionspunkter för att förbättra bildmatchningen, optimalt antal skalstockar för skalsättning och vilken kameramodell och självkalibreringsmodell som gav den lägsta mätosäkerheten. Bildmatchningen och skapandet av 3D modellerna utfördes i programvaran Agisoft Photoscan. Analysen av modellerna utfördes i programvarorna 3DReshaper och CloudCompare. Resultaten utvärderades mot en skannad referensmodell framtagen med en ROMER Absolute Arm som har möjlighet att uppvisa mätosäkerheter på hundradels mm och kunde därmed anses som “sant” värde i denna studie. Resultatet visade att de kodade markörerna inte var nödvändiga som konnektionspunkter för bildmatchningen. Det visade även att oavsett kamera, självkalibreringsmodell och antal skalstockar (4, 3 & 2) låg alla modeller under den tillåtna avvikelsen i volym och maxdjup som normen för kavitationsskador på vattenturbinkolvar föreskriver (IEC 60609-1, från Swedish Standards Institute). Normen anger att mätosäkerheten på metoden som används inte får överskrida ±15% från det sanna värdet. Den här metoden har här visat sig vara tillämpbar och kan ersätta TLS för dokumentation och avgjutning för uppmätning av statiska deformationer när kraven på en relativ mätosäkerhet är ±5% av det sanna värdet. / As a result of the development of digital cameras and image processing software in recent years, the interest in close-range photogrammetry (CRP) has grown. In this study, CRP was evaluated as an alternative method to terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) for static deformation measurements and it was related to cavitation damage on water turbine pistons where the volume and maximum depth is measured. A large part of the purpose of the study was that it should be done with simple conditions so that the method will be easy to carry out and applies especially in industrial environments. Simulated deformations were created on a wooden board with a flat surrounding surface, and on a ball made of cork. The shooting was done with non-professional cameras, a digital camera and a smartphone camera. The objects that was examined had a matte texture, the images were taken with a large overlap (80–100%) and the lighting conditions were good enough to avoid shading and glare in the pictures. What was evaluated in the study was how many coded markers that should be used to improve image alignment, what the optimal number of scale bars for scaling the model is, and which camera model and self-calibration model that gave the lowest measurement uncertainty. The alignment of the images and creation of the 3D-models of the deformations were performed in the software Agisoft Photoscan. The analysis of the models was performed in the softwares 3DReshaper and CloudCompare. The results were evaluated against a scanned reference model developed with a ROMER Absolute Arm which has the ability to display measurement uncertainties on hundreds of millimetres and could thus be considered as a “true” value in this study. The result showed that the coded markers were not necessary in the image alignment procedure. It also showed that, regardless of which camera, self- calibration model and number of scale bars (4, 3 & 2), all the models created were below the permitted deviation in volume and maximum depth as the standard for cavitation damage on water turbine pistons (IEC 60609-1, from the Swedish Standards Institute) prescribes. The standard states that the measurement uncertainty of the method used must not exceed ±15% from the true value. This method has been found to be applicable and can replace TLS for documentation and volume measurement with a temporary filler for static deformations when the requirements for a relative measurement uncertainty are ±5% from the true value.

The covid-19 pandemic initiated this master thesis project. The pandemic has spread globally causing a lot of fear and uncertainty. We noticed the big shift in people’s daily routines, with the current state being that many individuals are stuck at home, scared to go outside, scared to meet with family members that are within the risk group. The future is very uncertain, people not knowing when society will return to normal. To provide people with a sense of safety, a tool for an easier daily routine, the feeling of more control in their daily lives, an opportunity to help others. These are all purposes that embody the reason for this master thesis.The goal of this master thesis project is to develop a digital prototype of an application concept. The application’s purpose is to provide users with insight of high activity areas of people in their vicinity or specific locations, to hopefully result in the user feeling more in control and hence more safe. The workflow used in this project is based on design thinking, using experience gained from the industrial design engineering program combined with research on the topic of user interfaces to develop and test the concept. The focus of the research in this thesis is placed heavily on usability and graphic design.The process was divided into phases following the process of design thinking, with potential users included in every phase. From interviews, questionnaires and personas during the first phase of context immersion to workshops during the second phase, ideation, to finally usability testing during the third phase, implementation. To ensure that the needs of the user were always focused on throughout the entirety of this master thesis we included potential users in each phase of the project. During the different phases, Tensaii AB provided guidance on decisions made by us, as well as provided feedback on specific methods and results presented during the weekly meetings.The result of this master thesis is an application prototype, the design based on all the data gained from participants and collected literature. A design that, through a high level of usability, enables a wider group of users to easily use it. The concept was named Milocus, translated from Latin to ”my place”. An application that through a check in function can collect data about activity in different areas. The application clearly shows the activity to the user through three categories, calm, busy and very busy. The color choices and design of the application were made using the online tool Material Design.

Thanks to the development in recent years, the placement of miniaturized sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, global positioning system receivers (GPS), microphones or others to commercially sold smartphones is increasing. Use of these sensors (which are to be found in the smartphone) for human activity recognition with health care improvement in mind is a discussed theme. Advantages of the use of smartphone for human movement monitoring lies in the fact that it is a device that the person measured carries with them and there are no additional costs. The disadvantages are a limited storage and battery. Therefore, only accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, and microphone were chosen because their combination achieves best results. GPS sensor was excluded for its lack of reliability in sampling and for being energy demanding. Features were computed from the measured data and used for learning of the classification model. The highest accuracy was achieved with the use of a machine learning method called Random Forest. The main goal of this work was to create an algorithm for transportation mode recognition using signals sensed by a smartphone. The created algorithm succeeds in classification of walk, car, bus, tram, train, and bike in 97.4 % with 20 % holdout validation. When tested on a new set of data from the tenth volunteer, the resulting accuracy counted as average form classification recall for each transportation mode reached 90.49 %.