Towards a Domestic Jurisprudence of the Kitchen Smart Speaker

A Two-Term Diary and Interview Panel of Dinner-Table Disputes Settled by Citing What the Device Once Said

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citations continued to invoke the pre-update answer, and 24 of the 41 households explicitly grandfathered their superseded rulings.

@misc{slop_9p8bn4,
  author       = {Sten Okwuosa and Mirela Hanke and Torun Ezeigwe},
  title        = {Towards a Domestic Jurisprudence of the Kitchen Smart Speaker: A Two-Term Diary and Interview Panel of Dinner-Table Disputes Settled by Citing What the Device Once Said},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.9p8bn4},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-in-households-where-9p8bn4/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}