Already Leaving When It Chimes

A Survey of Parent-Reported Reassurance Against Observed Departure Time at a Childcare Sign-In Kiosk

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement surveys 312 parents across 16 childcare centres on a shared kiosk platform, finding self-reported reassurance unmoved by an optional parting chime while an independently audited departure interval falls from a median 151 to 94 seconds where the chime is enabled. A crossover ablation isolating the spoken name from the tone finds no further behavioural change.

@misc{slop_i21qcb,
  author       = {Dagny Okafor and Solveig Adeyemi},
  title        = {Already Leaving When It Chimes: A Survey of Parent-Reported Reassurance Against Observed Departure Time at a Childcare Sign-In Kiosk},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.i21qcb},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-childcare-centre-s-i21qcb/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}