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Humans need to feel connected to one another. With each new technology we create and re-create ways to connect with others we care about. Thanks to the ubiquity of powerful mobile technology in certain parts of the world, we have nearly immediate access to those remote others. Despite these advances our shared experiences are diminishing, and the ways we most often connect with our remote framily members seem to be superficial and at the expense of more meaningful interaction with collocated family members. People are not likely to give up the convenience and entertainment afforded by their mobile technology, but might those same technologies be capable of supporting interactions that help the users be the selves they wish they were, rather than the consumers their technologies were designed to support? To investigate the space of technological support for people's feelings of togetherness I conducted three studies. The first study was a diary study over 14 days where I asked about the current practices of middle schoolers for communicating with friends out side of school and for listening to music. In the second study, I conducted a design charrette where participants designed a technology to support co-listening, and then tried my first prototype. CoListen is a streaming music player that supports a listener in listening to the same music at the same time as a friend or family member. CoListen is designed with the explicit intent of requiring as little of the listener's attention as possible. In the third study, I deployed Colisten v1.0 in the wild and conducted a 14-day diary study asking participants about their experiences. I found that many of the participants from my target population listen to music and communicate with their friends, and that phatic communication (as opposed to goal-oriented communication) was prominent. I also found participants to be interested in the idea of technology to support co-listening and intrigued by how few little the barrier to co-listening can be, and how little attention is required. In study 3 I found that people enjoyed the experience of remote co-listening and did listen to music as a background activity. Many participatns reported feeling more together with their framily members with whom they co-listened. / Ph. D. / Humans need to feel connected to one another. With each new technology we create and re-create ways to connect with others we care about. Thanks to the ubiquity of powerful mobile technology in certain parts of the world, we have nearly immediate access to those remote others. Despite these advances our shared experiences are diminishing, and the ways we most often connect with our remote family members seem to be superficial and at the expense of more meaningful interaction with collocated family members. People are not likely to give up the convenience and entertainment afforded by their mobile technology, but might those same technologies be capable of supporting interactions that help the users be the selves they wish they were, rather than the consumers their technologies were designed to support? To investigate the space of technological support for people’s feelings of togetherness I conducted three studies. The final study involved participant using a custom-built streaming music player app that supported friends and family members in listening to the same music at the same time. This app was also designed to require as little of the listener’s attention as possible. I found that many people reported feeling more together with their friends or family with whom they co-listened.

La personalidad es entendida como una serie de tendencias básicas internas que influyen en las acciones y pensamientos de cada ser humano, que pueden estar relacionadas con el nivel de motivación personal; por ello nuestro objetivo fue determinar el grado de relación entre personalidad y motivación laboral, mediante la aplicación del Cuestionario “Big Five” –BFQ y la Escala de motivación laboral (R-MAWS). La investigación fue no experimental y correlacional, llevada a cabo en una muestra conformada por 71 trabajadores de una entidad pública de Chiclayo, entre obreros, técnicos y profesionales de ambos sexos y con edades que oscilan entre 20 a 69 años. Los resultados muestran que existe relación significativa entre las dimensiones de personalidad: energía, afabilidad y estabilidad emocional y la dimensión regulación introyectada de motivación laboral; además, sobre la dimensión personalidad, se obtuvo mayor frecuencia en el nivel “Alto” en las dimensiones de energía, estabilidad emocional, apertura mental y tesón; sin embargo, sobre motivación laboral, las dimensiones regulación externa, regulación introyectada y motivación intrínseca, la mayor frecuencia se encontró en el nivel “Medio”. Por otra parte, en cuanto al sexo, en mujeres se halló correlación negativa entre energía y regulación introyectada; correlación positiva altamente significativa entre apertura mental y regulación externa y correlación positiva significativa entre apertura mental y motivación intrínseca; a su vez, en hombres se encontró correlación positiva muy significativa entre la dimensión afabilidad y regulación introyectada; además de correlación positiva entre estabilidad emocional y regulación externa. / Personality is understood as a series of basic internal tendencies that influence the actions and thoughts of each human being, which may be related to the level of personal motivation; Therefore, our objective was to determine the degree of relationship between personality and work motivation, by applying the “Big Five” Questionnaire –BFQ and the Work Motivation Scale (R-MAWS). The research was non-experimental and correlational, carried out in a population made up of 71 workers from a public entity in Chiclayo, among workers, technicians and professionals of both sexes and with ages ranging from 20 to 69 years. The results show that there is a significant relationship between the personality dimensions: energy, affability and emotional stability and the introjected regulation dimension of work motivation; Furthermore, on the personality dimension, a higher frequency was obtained at the "High" level in the dimensions of energy, emotional stability, mental openness and tenacity; However, regarding work motivation, the dimensions external regulation, introjected regulation and intrinsic motivation, the highest frequency was found in the “Medium” level. On the other hand, regarding sex, in women a negative correlation was found between energy and introjected regulation; highly significant positive correlation between open-mindedness and external regulation and significant positive correlation between open-mindedness and intrinsic motivation; in turn, in men a very significant positive correlation was found between the dimension of agreeableness and introjected regulation; in addition to a positive correlation between emotional stability and external regulation.