Project 5.2 The UX of Consciousness

Brief: Storytelling audio, artefact analysis

Group Partners: Ling Wu, Ivy Wang, Carol Chen, Hannah Qu, Chun Li

Directed Storytelling:

We asked students and teachers in LCC to talk about their experience of anesthesia. During the storytelling, we would like to let the participants narrating their experiences and thoughts by themselves instead of asking questions.

Original audio:

"我是去年去医院做了一个胃镜，是全麻胃镜，我先是喝了一小管子的药特别难受，感觉有东西卡在喉咙里，然后躺在经是外面的床上，到我的时候，医生出来把我推进去，开始跟我聊天，给我打麻药，室内比较暗，打了麻药开始一点感觉都没有，我还是能看清眼前的一切，头脑也能思考，我还在想是不是我对麻药有抗体，我怎么还这么清醒，想着想着，我就没有意识了！等我再醒来的时候，先是听见护士叫我慢慢有了意识，睁开了眼睛，浑身无力，脑袋发麻，护士让我再躺一会再出去，和我讲了几句话，让我别睡着了，我就在躺了躺，但还是很虚弱，但是我觉得我该走了，所以就艰难的爬起来，出去等结果了。"

Translation:

Last year I went to the hospital, to make a gastroscope, a general anesthesia gastroscope. I firstly drank a small tube of medicine, which was very uncomfortable. I felt something stuck in my throat, and then I was lying on the bed outside the menstrual area. When I was there, the doctor comes out and push me, start chatting with me, give me a narcotic. The room is dark, I do n’t feel anything at all after applying anesthetic. I can still see everything in front of my eyes, and my mind can think, I am still wondering if I am I have antibodies to narcotics, why am I so sober, thinking and thinking, suddenly I have no consciousness! When I woke up again, I first heard the nurse tell me to slowly become conscious, opened my eyes, my body was weak, and my head was numb. The nurse asked me to lie down for a while and then go out and spoke a few words to me, let I don't fall asleep, I'm lying down, but still weak, but I think I should go, so I got up hard and went out to wait for the result.

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