I’m totally wired

For the next 24 hours, I am science’s bitch. I am a guinea pig in a friend’s friend’s stress profile research.

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I have 6 electrodes stuck to my body and wires that lead to a device I carry on my hip. A second device sits on my table, it has a switch and a mouth piece that I get to blow in whenever a piece of Palm pilot software tells me to.

When I go to sleep tonight, I will do so with plastic tubes up my nose, attached to a third device which will measure the gasses I emit while breathing.

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Every hour and a half, the Palm pilot guides me through a routine and asks me questions. (“Who are you with?”, “How do you feel”, “Where are you?”) From time to time, I will have to chew on tampon sized piece of cotton wool.

Tomorrow, I get to carry all the gear into work with me.

25. February 2004 von Caroline
Categories: Personal | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 comments

Comments (5)

  1. Hg says February 25, 2004 at 9:13 pm

    Do you have an IP address?

  3. tomcosgrave says February 25, 2004 at 11:46 pm

    I wonder has the reseach project got a factor for the extra stress that carrying all of that kit will add…and what if you have to sneeze?!

  4. Caroline says February 26, 2004 at 6:33 am

    So far it hasn’t been stressful, except for this morning when I was a bit cranky following orders when I’d just woken up. Don’t like being bullied around by a Palm! I think doing the breathing test and chewing the damn cotton wool at work is going to be mildly embarrassing.

  5. Jason says February 26, 2004 at 4:58 pm

    Now that’s friendship.