A considerable proportion (37.1%) disagreed that e-Health applications offer a pleasant way to interact.
However only a minority agreed that these applications work well (45.8%) and are a pleasant way to interact (38.2%).
Only a minority expected that such applications would be useful and that e-Health would provide a pleasant way to interact with care professionals.
Items in the performance expectancy scale generally scored lower: 45.8% perceived e-Health as useful and 38.2% perceived it as a pleasant way to interact.
Respondents were asked to rate the following four statements: "Contacting health-care professionals via the Internet (1) makes it easier to contact a health-care professional when I want, (2) enables me to live independently for longer, (3) works well, (4) is a pleasant way to interact".
Internet savvy people will enjoy this pleasant distraction and new way to interact.
Google announced its ambitious Google Glass project this week, and made the below demo video depicting a world where human computer interfaces only allow you to interact with the most pleasant of hipster stimuli, overlaying a patina of cliche urban millennial all over your daily life.
In a happier, upbeat and all around more pleasant atmosphere where laughter is encouraged, employees are more likely to interact and brainstorm together.
It physically hurts me now to interact at this level, to have a "pleasant" yet superficial conversation with another person, because I wonder: Why aren't you consumed by these thoughts and feelings?
If anything, it might improve the working environment, sending pleasant wafts of blueberry across the room, encouraging co-workers to interact with one another in asking for a honk on each other's rigs, et cetera, et cetera.
