"First thing in the morning," she said, "a light comes on and a beeper sounds".
A subject wears an earpiece and a beeper sounds at random intervals.
At the 2-h time point, the beeper sounded, alerting the participant to use a second lancet to obtain a capillary blood sample for placement on the 120-min glucose sensor.
These days, his interest is in a real hat now in prototype: a hard hat with a tiny microprocessor and beeper that sound a warning when dangerous equipment is nearby on a construction site.
The authors collect introspective reports from a single individual, who carries a beeper that sounds at random moments; when it sounds, she is to note what she is currently thinking and feeling.
The beepers are timed to sound only at long intervals, surprising participants and triggering an immediately retrospective assessment of their "inner experience", emotion, or thoughts in the moment before the beep.
When Jennifer Capriati grows irritable at the sound of a beeper, Venus maintains her oblivion to distraction.
She counts the seven steps of her left foot on her approach, listening for the sound of a faint beeper placed on the mat that tells her when to plant the pole and push up.
The farm's complicated mix of machinery is hooked into a computer that sounds Dr. Warner's beeper whenever any element of the ecosystem is out of kilter.
"Free at last! Free at last!" he said in an interview, pointing to a beeper in his office that had sounded dozens of times to alert him to violent outbreaks in the jail system.
