A new Slop University research poster teaches the typing indicator in one book club's group chat as a single-site case, and the University has entered the Dots Standard in its online-meeting standing orders.
A teaching case from one book club's group chat ends with the longest dots taking the first agenda item.
Three animated dots have been given a place in the University’s minutes. A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities, published today, teaches the typing indicator in one book club’s group chat as a single-site case, and the University has responded by entering the Dots Standard in its online-meeting standing orders.
The case follows a club of six members through twenty-six weeks of its chat. For the first thirteen the convenor kept a ledger of dot-seconds and posted the totals each Sunday; for the second thirteen the month’s book pick went to whoever’s dots had run longest. The poster reports that dot-seconds per member rose roughly fivefold in the second half, and that delivered messages fell.
The club gave us six people and one chat, and the case has become a useful mirror for how the School thinks about what a record is for.
— Dr Fenna Okoro, Senior Lecturer and Convenor of the Horizon Register
The poster is written for the seminar room, with readers given the first half of the season and asked to forecast the second. Co-author Dr Petra Umbile, Postdoctoral Fellow, says the dots were “the part of the chat everyone could see, and so the part we could teach from.” Dr Iben Chikere, Lecturer, completes the author team.
Under the Standard, each committee’s minutes will record every member’s typing-indicator seconds as speaking time. The School regards it as a modest and workable beginning.
The full poster is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.uceqtf.