SMARTPHONE APPLICATIONS AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES:

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LIMITATIONS

Abstract

This article aimed to analyze the use of smartphone applications and the impact on physical activities. Attention to developing technologies and their potentialities and limitations can lead to reflections that allow satisfactory results. Through a bibliographical review, it’s noticed that the improvement of the applications and associated devices, the diversification of strategies and interventions and several other factors discussed demonstrate that this new reality has great chances of revolutionizing professional intervention in the future. However, there is still need of critical care and sense, lacking education and familiarization of both users and professionals, as well as greater security in the information collected and used.