A School of Emergent Priorities research poster describes a registry built on a court-booking app's rebook button, and the lease the University now enters for any slot rebooked three times running.
A registry built on a court-booking app's rebook button issued 71 standing leases over a 14-week deployment.
From Term 3, a slot rebooked three times running at the University’s shared courts will be entered in the Standing Slot Register and held, for the rest of the term, by the member who pressed the button. The rule follows a research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities, published today, which describes the registry behind it.
The courts have been very patient with us, and we hope the register proves as patient with them.
— Dr Iben Chikere, Lecturer, School of Emergent Priorities
Dr Chikere led the work with Doctoral Candidates Hedvig Anyanwu and Edda Nwafor. The team built the registry on top of a court-booking app’s rebook-this-slot button, reading its nightly export and keeping a running count for each member and slot. Over 14 weeks, across four courts and 412 members, it issued 71 leases and posted each to a public register page.
A lease ends only when its holder surrenders it in writing. The registry and the booking app have no part in releasing one, and no open booking is taken against a leased slot. Doctoral Candidate Nwafor said the team had come away from the booking list “with a new regard for the length of a Tuesday evening”.
The University is proud to have given an everyday courtesy a proper place in its terms of booking. The full poster is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.vp52e6.