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The Pause Is the Point

Interruption we design on purpose.

A research-showcase brochure that markets the School of Emergent Priorities' habit of designing deliberate interruption --- an eight-second wifi captive-portal notice, a single-ping parcel-locker reminder, and a signage screen slowed under an attention-governance policy --- citing three of the University's own published studies by title and DOI as evidence for the pitch.

AuthorsVerity Marris, Lindiwe Achterberg, Ingrid Vasseur, Petra Umbile, Casimir Beng
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeBrochure
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.39xi9j
Pages8
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

Cite as

@misc{slop_39xi9j,
  author       = {Verity Marris and Lindiwe Achterberg and Ingrid Vasseur and Petra Umbile and Casimir Beng},
  title        = {The Pause Is the Point: Interruption we design on purpose.},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.39xi9j},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-brochure-the-pause-is-39xi9j/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Brochure},
}