Research outputs

The published research outputs of Slop University.

All research outputs of the University are published open access under CC BY 4.0, with persistent identifiers minted by the Office of Research Outputs.

Published outputs

Brochure

Kept on File

Casimir Beng, Verity Marris, Sten Okwuosa, Renke Sabel, Fenna Okoro · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.rnwcz1

A research-showcase brochure from Slop University uses a school foyer's weekly full-count photograph of its phone-pouch wall to introduce the University's paired disciplines of auditing what an instrument was built to prove and anticipating a concern before it hardens into policy, showcasing eight of the University's published findings alongside profiles of five roster researchers.

Ad

The Bar You Clear Becomes The Floor

Joost Nwosu · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.wlbowu

A marketing poster for the School of Continuous Improvement features Postdoctoral Fellow Joost Nwosu poolside at a junior swim club, stopwatch in hand, as a swimmer's cleared personal-best time is logged as the new minimum standard, developed for bus-stop panels and campus digital signage in a landscape rotation.

Poster

What the Rebrand Took With It

Thandiwe Solberg, Renke Sabel, Joost Nwosu · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.pw3uc0

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits recognition of a regular's usual order across 22 café sites and 236 regulars in the seven weeks either side of a full rebrand. Component-level recall (drink type, size, temperature, milk, extras) holds broadly steady, but the unprompted "usual" call collapses from 93% to 61%, a pattern the team reads as cue-dependent retrieval rather than durable person memory.

Brochure

Name Your Price

Bram Ntuli · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.2f1r8l

A research-showcase brochure presenting the University's work on informal valuation through the weekend garage sale: the price set at dawn and never revised, the haggle as an unminuted dispute-resolution system, and the box marked FREE as a standing test of every instrument built to score generosity. Seven published outputs anchor the showcase.

Poster

How Far Ahead Can You Hear the Ice-Cream Van?

Fenna Okoro, Ingrid Vasseur, Osei Vandermeer · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.s7ul28

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities fits 44 verandahs on one suburban street with chime-detecting acoustic nodes for fourteen weekends, benchmarking a twelve-member route ensemble against persistence and climatology baselines across 31 observed ice-cream van rounds. Ensemble skill collapses to zero at a mean lead of 8.4 minutes after first chime --- a horizon that doubling the node count moved by eleven seconds --- while the residents' association's nightly Van Outlook remains published, with observed rounds now tracking it more closely than ensemble spread predicts.

Brochure

You Can Pick It

Iben Chikere, Sten Okwuosa, Torun Ezeigwe · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.9k92c5

A prospectus brochure inviting students into the University's research on how people judge that a person made a thing: the glance that calls a market bowl handmade, the confidence that survives a hidden tag, and the ticks, initials, and signatures institutions accept as proof that somebody did something. Five published studies and three researcher profiles carry the invitation from the fete table to an application.

Poster

Counting the Good China

Runa Adegoke, Iben Chikere, Lindiwe Achterberg · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.dy3i86

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities inventories 2,904 household effects held for best across 341 households and pairs the inventory with an 18-month prospective occasion diary in which households convene to rule candidate occasions eligible or ineligible. Only 4.1% of 5,118 logged occasions were ruled eligible, most of those were deferred anyway, and each year of non-use raises an object's elicited qualifying threshold by 0.23 index points --- the reserve behaves as a ratchet.

Brochure

Keep the Light On

Thandiwe Solberg, Anouk Mensah · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.edxb4h

A case-for-support brochure that makes the University's appeal to partners and donors on the strength of its research into domestic deterrence theatre: the porch-light timer in the empty house, the dummy dome camera over the corner-store till, the alarm sticker that outlived its alarm. Two Schools share the agenda --- the signal that stands guard, and the display that stands in for the thing displayed --- carried by seven published University studies cited by title and DOI.

Paper

Towards a Domestic Jurisprudence of the Kitchen Smart Speaker

Sten Okwuosa, Mirela Hanke, Torun Ezeigwe · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.9p8bn4

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement follows 41 suburban households across two school terms as 861 dinner-table disputes are referred to the kitchen smart speaker, finding referrals increasingly settled by citing a standing ruling rather than by any fresh query --- 19.2% of referrals in the opening month rising to 55.1% by the close --- with 11.8% of the 517 catalogued rulings traceable to a mishearing that households continue to cite even once it is demonstrated. A mid-panel platform update materially changed the answers behind 44.2% of the rulings then in force, yet 83.1% of subsequent citations continued to invoke the pre-update answer, and 24 of the 41 households explicitly grandfathered their superseded rulings.

Paper

Time to Correction

Fenna Okoro, Ingrid Vasseur, Petra Umbile · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.xw2mv8

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities photographs the 187 public-facing clock faces of four suburban shopping strips daily for the twenty-six weeks between daylight-saving changeovers, modelling the 83 initially wrong faces as a competing-risks process whose terminal states are correction, stoppage or removal, and being overtaken by the next changeover. Correction plateaus at 49.4% by week 26 while 32.5% of faces stay wrong until the calendar resolves them; analogue faces are corrected at nearly twice the subdistribution hazard of digital ones, and the strips' quarterly streetscape-presentation audits, whose defect taxonomy registers a stopped clock but not a wrong one, quintuple the removal hazard of stopped faces while leaving wrong faces untouched.

Poster

Who Sets the Tooth Fairy's Rate?

Joost Nwosu, Torun Ezeigwe, Mirela Hanke · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.06kohn

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement reconstructs per-tooth payout histories across 214 households and 1,838 pillow events, modelling the tooth fairy's going rate as an administered price. Payout spells hold for a median 4.8 years with no downward repricing observed; 71% of repricings land exactly one coin or note denomination up, and a district parents' association has since adopted the panel median as its kinder handbook's suggested rate.

Paper

Who Can Open Your Front Door?

Lindiwe Achterberg, Marek Solheim, Verity Marris · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.vd9dmj

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities reports a two-sided custody census of one 23-household suburban street whose residents' association resolved to treat its spare keys as credential infrastructure, reconciling the 74 keys households believed were in circulation against the 111 their neighbours could produce: only 48 appear on both ledgers, 63 held keys (56.8%) were unknown to the household whose door they open, and median custody age was six years. At the key amnesty convened in response, 32 keys were surrendered, 14 returned, 11 matched no lock on the street, and 7 were re-lent on the spot; at six weeks the association had adopted a laminated Key Custody Register whose volunteer steward household has since listed its property for sale.