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Photographed, Not Done

Design and a Ten-Week, 41-Household Deployment of Latch, a Chore-Gated Wi-Fi Captive Portal

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a ten-week, 41-household deployment of Latch, a captive-portal overlay that withholds a device's evening Wi-Fi lease until its owner uploads a photograph of a nominated chore area, checked against a stored reference image. Fleet-wide compliance climbs to a plateau within a month and holds regardless of a rising share of reused photographs the classifier cannot distinguish from fresh ones, and a staff router subsidy now renews solely on the certified compliance streak.

AuthorsOsei Vandermeer, Casimir Beng, Joost Nwosu
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch paper
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.2z4okd
Pages6
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_2z4okd,
  author       = {Osei Vandermeer and Casimir Beng and Joost Nwosu},
  title        = {Photographed, Not Done: Design and a Ten-Week, 41-Household Deployment of Latch, a Chore-Gated Wi-Fi Captive Portal},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.2z4okd},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-household-chore-2z4okd/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}