Quick Response eller QR är en teknik som tillåter snabb och pålitlig optisk läsning av information som är kodad i ett rutmönster. Som läsverktyg kan man använda läsare som är speciellt tillverkade för ändamålet och numera också vanliga smartphones. Tekniken har i flera år varit framgångsrik i vissa industriella applikationer såsom lagerhållning, men det är fortfarande osäkert i vilken utsträckning den också kan vinna insteg i vardagligt användande av smartphones. Vi har genomfört en enkätundersökning bland universitetsstudenter för att uppskatta hur spridd användningen av QR-koder är och hur denna användning ser ut. För att analysera resultatet har vi använt oss av teorin om diffusion of innovations som tillhandahåller en modell för spridning av ny teknik inom ett sammanhang. Resultaten antyder försiktigtvis att kännedom om tekniken är väl spridd, men att användandet är begränsat och att det beror på brist på upplevd nytta snarare än på att tekniken skulle vara otillgänglig eller svårhanterlig. / Quick Response or QR is a technology allowing fast and reliable optical reading of information encoded in a pattern of black and white squares. Reading implements include devices designed especially for this purpose as well as, in recent years, ordinary smartphones. The technology has for some time been successful in industrial applications such as storage management, but it is uncertain to what degree it might also see widespread use in everyday use of smartphones. We conduct a questionnaire-based survey targeting university students in order to estimate the extent and nature of QR usage. In analysing our findings we make use of the theory of diffusion of innovations, which provides a model for the adoption of a new technology within a given context. Our results imply that knowledge of the technology is widely dispersed, but that actual use is limited and that this is due to a lack of perceived usefulness rather than the technology as such being inaccessible or difficult to use.

This study examined how users interact with a smartphone while in a learning situation based on videos via smartphones as a learning tool, and how this interaction and phenomena is experienced. The five test subject were separately given the same task that they were to solve using video instructions that were picked out and given to them. After finishing the task the subjects were observed while they demonstrated how they completed the task. After the observation the subject were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. The results show that the user experience of this phenomena is based on more pragmatic values than we could find in earlier studies, i.e. simplicity and functionality. We found that people in an older generation, age 50-60, had a more positive experience and view on mobile learning as a whole than what was stated in earlier studies. It also shows that the actual interaction with the smartphone during the task was minimal and only used to solve problems with the interaction such as bad image, bad sound or instructions going to fast. We believe that these results can be used in further studies on user experience and mobile learning and also for the designing of new products.

Bakgrund: Många tonåringar lider av sömnbrist på grund av sen eller nattlig användning av smartphones, vilket kan påverka deras hälsa och skolprestationer. Skolsköterskans uppdrag är att arbeta hälsofrämjande. I mötet med tonåringar har skolsköterskan möjlighet att uppmärksamma sömn- och smartphonevanor. Syfte: Att belysa skolsköterskors erfarenheter av och arbete med tonåringars sömn i relation till användning av smartphones. Metod: En kvalitativ metod med induktiv ansats användes. Ett strategiskt urval gjordes. Inklusionskriterier var skolsköterskor med minst 1 års erfarenhet som arbetar med tonåringar. Nio skolsköterskor intervjuades via e-post och datamaterialet analyserades med hjälp av kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Analysen resulterade i tre huvudkategorier : Hur smartphones påverkar tonåringars sömn, Att uppmärksamma, informera och motivera, Hälsofrämjande samarbete, och sju underkategorier: Att ha mobilen vid sängen, Konsekvenser i vardagen, Att inhämta kunskap om tonåringars smartphoneanvändning och sömn, Att informera, Att motivera, Samarbete med vårdnadshavare och Samarbete med övrig personal. Konklusion: Skolsköterskors hälsofrämjande arbete gällande sömn i relation till smartphones är beroende av varje enskild skolsköterskas kunskap, engagemang och intresse. Nationella riktlinjer för skolsköterskors arbete med sömn och smartphones samt en omarbetning av hälsoenkäten som används vid hälsosamtalet efterfrågas av skolsköterskorna. / Background: Many teenagers suffer from sleep deprivation due to late or nightly use of smartphones, affecting health and academic performance. The school nurse should work for health promotion and has, when meeting teenagers, the opportunity to address sleep and smartphone habits. Purpose: To highlight the school nurses´experiences and work with teenagers' sleep in relation to the use of smartphones. Method: A qualitative method with an inductive approach was used. A strategic selection was made. Inclusion criteria were school nurses working with teenagers. Nine school nurses were interviewed by email. The data was analyzed using a qualitative content analysis. Results: The analysis resulted in the main categories: How smartphones affect teenagers' sleep, Attention, inform and motivate, and Health promotion cooperation. Subcategories: Having the phone at bed, Consequences of everyday life, Retrieving knowledge about teenagers' smartphone usage and sleep, Informing, Motivating, Collaboration with guardians, and Collaboration with other staff. Conclusion: School nurses' health promotion work regarding sleep related to smartphones, depends on every individual school nurse’s knowledge, commitment and interest. National guidelines for school nurses' work with sleep and smartphones, and an update of the health survey used in the health interview is requested by the school nurses

L'environnement \textit{indoor} permet un grand nombre de services issus des technologies de l'information et de la communication. La localisation de l'utilisateur, via celle de son smartphone, est donc un élément-clé de cette réussite. Cette thèse s'intéresse au suivi des déplacements de l'utilisateur grâce aux capteurs de mouvement embarqués dans son smartphone. Elle repose sur la détermination du type de locomotion. Nous proposons une solution de navigation \textit{indoor} complète, permettant de proposer à l'utilisateur un chemin jusqu'à sa destination dans n'importe quel bâtiment tout en connaissant sa position à chaque instant, avec une précision de l'ordre du mètre. De façon analogue, nous avons également montré que nous pouvons déterminer le mode de transport d'un utilisateur pour une application de détection de places de parking libres. / Indoor environments present opportunities for a rich set of location-aware services in the information and communications technology (ICT) area. Therefore, accurately localizing a user indoors has become a key enabling technology. This thesis addresses the issue of tracking a user equipped with an off-the-shelf smartphone by exploiting its embedded motion sensors. Leveraging key characteristics of human locomotion, we propose a complete, infrastructure-free indoor navigation solution, allowing a user to navigate any unknown building with meter-level accuracy. Finally, extending our understanding of locomotion to outdoors areas where users are inside vehicles, we design and implement a smartphone application for smart on-street parking.

Orientador: Edberto Ferneda / Banca: Silvana Aparecida Borsetti Gregório Vidotti / Banca: Guilherme Ataíde Dias / Resumo: A evolução tecnológica propiciou a aplicação de novas ferramentas para acessar os serviços disponíveis nas bibliotecas. Os serviços de uma biblioteca por muito tempo ficaram restritos aos seus acervos em papel. Com o surgimento de novas ferramentas para auxiliar nos processos de recuperação da informação, oferecida por intermédio das tecnologias da informação, transformaram-se os métodos de trabalho e a forma de acesso aos serviços das bibliotecas, especificamente os serviços de referência e informação. Foi constatado que não há como prever se há como aliar o momento em que um usuário tem uma necessidade informacional com o momento em que tem recursos computacionais para acesso remoto aos serviços de referência e informação por ela oferecidos. Porém, observou-se que atualmente, os sistemas de comunicação sem fio e os dispositivos móveis são tecnologias que permitem acesso remoto e ininterrupto à Internet. Isso faz com que as bibliotecas esforcem-se para ampliar as condições de acesso e uso aos seus serviços, independente da restrição de seu horário de funcionamento para atendimento presencial ou de sua localização física. O objetivo geral concentrou-se em analisar aspectos de acesso e uso de serviços de referência e informação em ambientes digitais e digitais móveis em bibliotecas norte-americanas e brasileiras. A metodologia utilizada inicialmente foi a pesquisa bibliográfica e documental que ofereceram base para investigação das bibliotecas norte-americana e brasileira que tiveram seus serviços de referência e informação otimizados para ambientes digitais móveis. As tecnologias móveis proporcionaram a criação de ferramentas que valorizam o tempo e a independência de localização física para o usuário acessar e recuperar informação nas bibliotecas, tornando dispensável sua presença física... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The technological evolution propitiated the application of new tools to access the services available in the libraries. The services of a library for a long time were restricted to their collections on paper. With the emergence of new tools to assist in the process of information retrieval, offered through information technology, transforming the working methods and ways of access to library services, specifically the services of information and reference. It was noted that there is no way to predict if it's possible to ally the moment when a user has an informational need with the moment in which computing resources to have remote access to information and referral services offered by it. However, it was noted that currently, the wireless communication systems and mobile devices are technologies that allow remote access and uninterrupted to the Internet. It makes the libraries try hard to improve the conditions of access and usage to their services, regardless of the restriction of their working time to attend in person or their physical location. The general objective focused on examining aspects of access and use of the services of reference and information in digital environment and in digital mobile libraries in United States and Brazil. Initially, the used methodology was the bibliographical and documental research that could provide the basis of research for Brazilian and American libraries who had their services of information and reference optimized for mobile digital environments. The mobile technologies propitiated the development of tools that valorized time and the independence of the user location to access and retrieve information in libraries, making expendable his physical presence. Therefore, the libraries that are attentive to the emergence of this mobile society, where information must go with the user, expanding... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Submitted by Irene Nascimento (irene.kessia@ufpe.br) on 2017-05-30T18:21:02Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Dissertação Pedro Gamboa 07 06 2016 ÚLTIMA VERSÃO PARA IMPRESSÃO CAPA DURA.pdf: 1448496 bytes, checksum: 0447406d9513122efdf67daddb2a6fd2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-30T18:21:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Dissertação Pedro Gamboa 07 06 2016 ÚLTIMA VERSÃO PARA IMPRESSÃO CAPA DURA.pdf: 1448496 bytes, checksum: 0447406d9513122efdf67daddb2a6fd2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-07 / Os aparelhos inteligentes tem sido usados por diferentes segmentos de mercado nos últimos anos, principalmente pelas facilidades que proporcionam para realizar diferentes atividades tanto profissionais quanto de cunho pessoal. Diante da importância que a tecnologia vem assumindo nos últimos anos, se faz necessário maior aprofundamento sobre o tema, sendo o objetivo desta pesquisa conhecer os atributos da marca no processo decisão de compra de smartphones pelo segmento de estudantes universitários pernambucanos. A motivação para a escolha do tema foi devido à necessidade de conhecer um pouco mais sobre as especificidades do comportamento de consumo dos jovens universitários que, em princípio, utilizam intensamente a tecnologia ofertada por smartphones. Para dar suporte ao estudo, a revisão da literatura se baseou nos construtos, atributos da marca, processo de decisão de compras, assim, como o papel da marca e a relação entre o valor dado a ela e a sua relevância na aquisição do aparelho. O problema de pesquisa levou a adoção de uma metodologia com abordagem de natureza qualitativa. Nesse sentido, a coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de roteiro de entrevista semiestruturado, aplicado a estudantes de diferentes cursos da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Os dados foram analisados por meio da técnica de análise de conteúdo. Os resultados demonstram que existem atributos importantes da marca para a maior parte da parcela dos entrevistados, a decisão da compra foi feita seguindo critérios tangíveis (hardware e atributos utilitários) e intangíveis (preço, marca e propaganda) dos aparelhos. Com isso, os resultados indicaram que os atributos da marca que mais influenciam na aquisição de smartphones para os estudantes universitários são o preço principalmente, a capacidade de memória de armazenamento de dados e a capacidade do processador, ou seja, a velocidade para correr programas e aplicativos. Em relação a marca, esta precisa despertar a satisfação com o uso do produto pelos estudantes e gerar associações, atributos positivos que façam se diferenciar dos demais concorrentes. Os resultados possibilitaram um maior conhecimento sobre o tema, oferecendo subsídios para novos estudos, bem como, para empresas que atuam na área da tecnologia. / Smart devices have been used for different market segments in recent years, mainly by providing facilities to carry out different activities both professional and personal nature. Given the importance that technology has assumed in recent years, it is most necessary depth on the subject, with the aim of this research to know the attributes of the brand in the process of smartphone buying decision by the segment of Pernambuco college students. The motivation for the choice of the subject was due to the need to know a little bit more about the specifics of the consumption behavior of university students that, in principle, intensely use technology offered by smartphones. To support the study, the literature review was based on the constructs of brand attributes, buying decision process, as well as the role of the brand of the brand and the relationship between the value given to it and its relevance in the device acquisition. The research problem led to adoption of a qualitative approach. In this sense, the data collection was carried out through semi-structured interview guide applied to students of different courses of the Federal University of Pernambuco. Data were analyzed using content analysis technique. The results show that there are important brand attributes for most portion of respondents, the purchase decision was made following tangible criteria (hardware utilities and attributes) and intangible (price, brand and advertising) of the devices. Thus, the results indicated that the brand attributes that most influence the purchase of smartphones for college students are the price mainly, the data storage memory and processor capacity, that is, the speed to run programs and applications. Regarding the brand, this must arouse satisfaction with the use of the product by the students and generate associations, positive attributes that do differentiate themselves from other competitors. The results allow a better understanding of the subject, offering subsidies for new studies in this topic, as well as for companies operating in the field of technology.

Ao longo dos tempos, a produção de notícias e reportagens precisou se adaptar à modernização do jornal impresso, ao surgimento do rádio, da televisão, mais recentemente, à internet e, por último (por enquanto), aos dispositivos móveis digitais como smartphones e tablets. Cada um desses períodos foi marcado por novos formatos de produzir, distribuir e consumir jornalismo. Dentro deste caminho evolutivo está o objeto de pesquisa desta tese que envolve a busca por formatos narrativos que se adaptem de forma mais personalizada aos dispositivos móveis digitais, às suas características específicas e potencialidades e, ainda, ao jornalismo que se reconfigura a partir das transformações da contemporaneidade. A massiva adoção dos dispositivos móveis digitais entre o público e a evolução tecnológica criam possibilidades de formatação e distribuição jornalísticas mais interativas e ubíquas se comparadas ao que havia antes. Enquanto novos meios de comunicação, os smartphones oferecem qualidades importantes para a redefinição do consumo de informação na atualidade, entre elas estão a portabilidade, a ubiquidade e a sensibilidade ao contexto do usuário. A partir dessa compreensão, entendemos, neste trabalho, que o jornalismo e sua conceituação precisam acompanhar esse processo evolutivo, o que nos leva à adoção do conceito de jornalismo ubíquo e também à elaboração de categorias constituintes desse conceito. Em seguimento a isto, também adotamos o conceito de narrativa sistêmica para fazer parte de nossa compreensão do formato atual dos conteúdos. Esses dois conceitos se unem a uma fundamentação complementar ligada ao design de navegação e interface, à experiência do usuário e à usabilidade para investigar as características específicas do jornalismo ubíquo e do seu formato, e em que patamar está sua adoção pelos aplicativos para smartphones dos jornais The New York Times, The Guardian, El País e O Estado de S. Paulo. Ao final, expomos o momento atual desses produtos jornalísticos e suas diferentes soluções de apresentação para as potencialidades existentes a partir do desenvolvimento tecnológico. / Over the years, the news production has had to adapt itself to the modernization of the printed newspaper, to the emergence of radio, television, more recently to the internet, and finally (for now) to digital mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Each of these periods was marked by new formats for producing, distributing and consuming journalism. Within this evolutionary path is located the research object of this thesis that involves the search for narrative formats that adapt in a more personalized way to the digital mobile devices, their specific characteristics and potentialities and also to the journalism that is reconfigured from the transformations of the contemporaneity. The massive adoption of digital mobile devices within the public and the technological evolution create more interactive and ubiquitous possibilities of formatting and distributing journalistic media than in the past. As a new media, smartphones offer important qualities for today\'s information consumption redefinition, among which are portability, ubiquity, and user context sensitivity. From this understanding, we assume in this work that journalism and its conception need to accompany this evolutionary process, which leads us to adopt the concept of ubiquitous journalism and also to the elaboration of constituent categories of this concept. Following this, we also adopt the concept of systemic narrative to be part of our understanding of the current format of the contents. These two concepts are coupled with a complementary basis linked to navigation and interface design, user experience, and usability to investigate the specific characteristics of ubiquitous journalism and its format, and at what level it is adopted by the smartphone applications of the newspapers The New York Times, The Guardian, El País and O Estado de S. Paulo. At the end, we present the current moment of these journalistic products and their different solutions of presentation to the potentialities emerged from the technological development.

A irregularidade longitudinal dos pavimentos prejudica a qualidade de rolamento, aumenta os Custos Operacionais dos Veículos (COV) e reduz a vida útil do pavimento. Vários instrumentos têm sido desenvolvidos com o propósito de medir a irregularidade longitudinal dos pavimentos, no entanto, existem conflitos que envolvem as diferentes classes de equipamentos, com relação à acurácia, custos e produtividade, o que dificulta a coleta contínua de dados, importante para a alimentação de um Sistema de Gerência de Pavimentos (SGP). Recentemente, algumas pesquisas começaram a relacionar a irregularidade longitudinal dos pavimentos aos sinais fornecidos pelos sensores de movimento (acelerômetros) e GPS (Global Positioning System) pré-instalados em smartphones, devido ao seu baixo custo, fácil operação e alta produtividade. Entretanto, ainda existem dúvidas sobre a qualidade e a forma de aplicação desses dados. Neste estudo, foram realizados testes de vibração e levantamentos de campo com smartphones, em três trechos de pavimentos com diferentes níveis de irregularidade (baixo, médio e alto), nos quais foram medidos sinais de aceleração vertical por meio de um smartphone fixado ao painel de um veículo, trafegando em diferentes velocidades. Com esses dados, calcularam-se valores de RMSVA (Root Mean Square Vertical Acceleration), que foram confrontados com a irregularidade longitudinal dos pavimentos, medida em IRI (International Roughness Index), por meio do método de Nível e Mira. Os testes mostraram ser a taxa de aquisição de dados dos smartphones o principal fator a afetar sua aplicação para a avaliação da irregularidade longitudinal dos pavimentos. Ao considerar todas as faixas de irregularidade medidas, os valores de RMSVA apresentaram correlação positiva com o IRI, com coeficientes de correlação (R) entre 0,97 e 0,99 e repetitividade aceitável para levantamentos em nível de rede, com coeficientes de variação médios de 3 a 6%. Assim como indicado em pesquisas correlatas, conclui-se que os smartphones são uma alternativa viável para a avaliação da irregularidade longitudinal dos pavimentos, especialmente em países com restrições de investimentos no setor rodoviário, desde que sejam tomados os devidos cuidados na coleta e aplicação dos dados medidos por esses dispositivos. / The longitudinal pavement roughness affects the rolling quality, increases Vehicle Operating Costs (VOC) and reduces the pavement life. Several instruments have been developed for measuring longitudinal pavement roughness. However, there are conflicts involving different classes of equipment with respect to accuracy, costs and productivity, which complicate the continuous data collection, important for the Pavement Management Systems (PMS). Recently, some studies started to link longitudinal pavements roughness to the signals provided by motion sensors (accelerometers) and GPS (Global Positioning System) pre-installed on smartphones, due to its low cost, simple operation and high productivity. However, there are still doubts about the quality and the form of application of such data. In this study, vibration and field tests were performed with smartphones, in three pavement sections with different levels of roughness (low, medium and high), in which vertical acceleration signals were measured by a smartphone attached to a vehicle dashboard, traveling at different speeds. With these data, RMSVA values (Root Mean Square Vertical Acceleration) were calculated, which were compared with longitudinal pavement roughness, measured in IRI (International Roughness Index) through the Level and Rod method. The tests showed to be the data acquisition rate of smartphones the main factor affecting its application for the evaluation of longitudinal roughness of pavements. When considering all roughness ranges measured, RMSVA statistics showed a positive correlation with IRI, with correlation coefficients (R) between 0.97 and 0.99 and acceptable repeatability for network-level surveys, with average coefficient of variation of 3 to 6%. As indicated in related research, it was concluded that smartphones are a viable alternative for the evaluation of longitudinal pavements roughness, especially in countries with investment restrictions in the highway segment, if the data are collected and explained properly.

La fragilité augmente dans le monde à cause de l’augmentation de la population âgée faisant passer l’être humain de l’autonomie à la dépendance. La détection précoce de la fragilité et le repérage des personnes à risque durant la phase de réversibilité de la fragilité permet d’engager rapidement des actions correctives. Le phénotype de Fried est l’outil le plus répandu pour l’identification de la personne fragile suivant cinq paramètres (vitesse de la marche, activité physique, perte de poids, fatigue et force de préhension palmaire). Un autre moyen de détection de la fragilité est d’évaluer la diminution de la complexité dans les signaux physiologiques. Cette diminution est traduite par la diminution de la corrélation à long terme dans les signaux physiologiques. Cependant, aucune approche ne permet d’alimenter ces indicateurs au domicile sans intervention d’un professionnel de santé. L’objectif de cette thèse est de contribuer à la définition d’un dispositif de mesure technologique, simple à utiliser et totalement intuitif, visant à alimenter deux indicateurs de Fried dans un environnement non contrôlé et détecter le signal de la marche sur une longue durée permettant la détection du changement dans la complexité du signal : le smartphone équipé d’un accéléromètre triaxial permet de mesurer l’activité physique et l’intervalle entre stride et stride qui est un outil important pour calculer la longueur de chaque pas, la vitesse de la marche et la variabilité dans le signal de la marche. Une stride est définit comme le temps entre le premier contact du talon avec le sol et le prochain contact de ce même talon / The frailty around the world is increasing because of the increase in the elderly population passing the human being from autonomy to dependence. Early detection of frailty and identification of individuals at risk during the reversibility phase of frailty provides quick initiations of corrective actions. The Fried phenotype is the most common tool for the identification of the fragile person using these five parameters (walking speed, physical activity, weight loss, fatigue and palmar grip strength). Another mean of the detection of frailty occurs in the reduction of the complexity in the physiological signals. The reduction in complexity is reflected in the decrement of the long-term correlation in temporal physiological signals. But for now, neither approach provides to supply to these indicators at home without the intervention of a health professional. The objective of this thesis is to contribute a technological measuring device, simple to use and totally intuitive to supply a few Fried indicators in an uncontrolled environment and detect the signal of walking for a long time allowing the detection of any change the complexity of the signal: the smartphone equipped with a tri axial accelerometer is used to measure the physical activity and the interval between stride and stride which is an important tool to calculate the length of each step, the walking speed and the variability in the signal of the step. A stride is defined as the time between the first contact of the heel with the ground and the next contact of the same heel

Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats var att utveckla kunskap om yrkesverksamma kvinnors upplevelser av smartphones inverkan i dagliga aktiviteter. Metod: Datainsamlingen genomfördes genom semistrukturerade intervjuer där 15 kvinnor i yrkesverksam ålder intervjuades. En kvalitativ innehållsanalys genomfördes för att analysera insamlad data där meningsbärande enheter togs ut som kondenserades och kodades vilka bildade fyra kategorier. Resultat: i) Smartphone: Hjälpmedel eller begränsning i aktivitet, ii) Smartphone och parallella aktiviteter, iii) Smartphone i sociala aktiviteter, iiii) Nåbar och uppkopplad i aktivitet. Resultatet visade att smartphonen var en integrerad del i deltagarnas liv som tog mycket tid men som även underlättande utförandet av dagliga aktiviteter. Smartphonen upplevdes många gånger som en fördel för att uppnå en effektiv och smidig vardag, både i arbetet och under fritiden. De upplevde den dock som ett hinder när den medvetet eller omedvetet bidrog till att andra viktiga och värdefulla aktiviteter inte genomfördes eller prioriterades bort på grund av smartphonen. Slutsats: Smartphones inverkade stödjande och hindrande i utförandet av kvinnors dagliga aktiviteter. Med stöd av de funktioner som smartphonen erbjuder, kan människors delaktighet i samhället möjliggöras då mycket av samhällets aktiviteter idag delvis bygger på en uppkopplad teknik. Normer och etiska principer växer successivt fram om hur smartphones ska användas i dagliga aktiviteter och vad den har för betydelse i människors vardag. Studien visade att smartphones har en stor inverkan på kvinnors dagliga aktiviteter. / Aim: The aim of this study was to develop knowledge about the experiences of how smartphones influenced the daily activities of working women. Method: 15 women in working age were interviewed, using a semi-structured design. Data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. Sentences were taken out, condensed and coded and in the end resulted in four categories. Results: i) Smartphone: Resource or limitation, ii) Smartphones and parallel activities, iii) Smartphones in social activities, iiii) Reachable and connected online in activity. The results showed that smartphones had an impact in women's daily activities. The smartphone was an integrated part of women's activities and could both be taking time from some activities but also be an important part of its performance. Many times it could make activities easier to perform and more effective, in both work- and leisure activities. However it could affect the person's focus and interrupt their performance of activities. The participants found that the smartphone could, consciously or not, be detrimental to the performance of tasks that have been subjectively more important for them. Conclusion: In women's daily activities, smartphones could both have a supportive impact as well as limitative in the performance of activities. The smartphones' functions serve to facilitate greater cohesion with society, since it is more reliant on everyday technology. Norms and ethical principles are successively growing on how smartphones are adequately used in peoples' lives. This study showed that smartphones had a great impact in women's daily activities.