A new Slop University research poster presents a five-kind taxonomy of recipe-page preambles, and the scroll length that will now stand before the skip-to-the-form link on the University's procedure pages.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster sorts recipe-page preambles into five kinds, and the University will delay its own skip-to-the-form link to match the kind readers finish.
Every University procedure page carries a link that takes the reader straight to the form, and from the next teaching period that link will appear only once the reader has scrolled far enough to have earned it. The distance comes from a research poster published today by the School of Emergent Priorities, which turns to the recipe page for its evidence.
The poster, Skip Link, Eventually, reads the introductions that online recipe pages place ahead of the ingredients and sorts them into five kinds: Provenance, Weather, Defence, Confession and Method note. It then follows household readers as they scroll, and finds a single kind that people tend to read to its end.
We came to the recipe page for the cooking and stayed, it turns out, for what the author had to say first.
— Dr Marek Solheim, Lecturer and Deputy Convenor, Horizon Register
The University has adopted the length of that kind as its own reference. Skip links on procedure pages for leave, travel and ethics will follow it, and a page without an opening account of how its procedure came about will gain one above the form. Dr Anneke Tolan, Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Convenor, Futures in Committee, said the arrangement “gives each procedure a moment to introduce itself.”
The full poster is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.73rd01.