Trusting the Beep, Explained

Iben Chikere, Mirela Hanke and Casimir Beng on whether shoppers who say they trust a self-checkout's error prompt override it any less

A research explainer from the School of Emergent Priorities on Iben Chikere, Mirela Hanke and Casimir Beng's poster testing whether shoppers' stated trust in a self-checkout's error prompt predicts their use of the override button. It follows the prompt from the kiosk screen to twelve weeks of till logs and sets the poster's flat chart beside the question it answers. All three authors describe the work in their own words.

@misc{slop_fbanxj,
  author       = {Iben Chikere and Mirela Hanke and Casimir Beng},
  title        = {Trusting the Beep, Explained: Iben Chikere, Mirela Hanke and Casimir Beng on whether shoppers who say they trust a self-checkout's error prompt override it any less},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.fbanxj},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-explainer-trusting-the-beep-fbanxj/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research explainer video},
}