A School of Emergent Priorities poster restages a live slot-reliability finding against a holiday-rental viewing counter, then adopts that counter as the University's venue-hire occupancy signal.
The tennis-court reclaim-speedup does not reproduce on a listing counter, and Horizon Register standing instruction 2026/44 writes the counter in anyway
The listing says three other people are looking at this stay. The night does not move.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities, led by Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Petra Umbile with Senior Lecturer Dr Fenna Okoro, Convenor of the Horizon Register, and Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Anouk Mensah, restages the University’s tennis-court live slot-reliability finding against that counter. Fourteen regional markets, 312 vacant-night listings, eleven weeks. Median hours-to-book stay statistically flat when the counter is shown (18.4 h hidden, 17.9 h shown, pooled r = 0.07). The pre-registered two-thirds reclaim-speedup is met at none of the fourteen markets.
The tennis-court score did not travel. The instruction does not need it to.
— Dr Petra Umbile, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Emergent Priorities
The restaging continues the Trajectory Analytics Group’s work on occupancy a page already publishes of itself. On the strength of the null, Horizon Register standing instruction 2026/44 writes the counter into the University’s venue-hire occupancy signal. Facilities opens or holds seminar rooms from the live view-count on each public booking page, with no ordinary override.
Dr Okoro said the Register had been looking for an occupancy signal a booking page could produce without a new instrument. “Venue-hire pages already show who is looking. The instruction is to stop treating that as decoration.”
The full poster is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.pxpo7e.