Stopped, Not Scanned

Interviewing Campus Life Staff and Passers-by on What the Sculpture Trail's QR-Plaque Count Was Assumed to Measure

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews nine Campus Life staff and 118 passers-by intercepted at the outdoor sculpture trail's seven QR-plaque stops, cross-referencing nine weeks of the plaques' own scan logs against independently observed stop-and-look events. Logged scan volume shows no reliable rank relationship to observed attention (Spearman's rho = -0.04), and the stop nearest the express-bus shelter records the trail's highest scan count alongside its lowest rate of passers-by actually stopping to look --- the scan count Campus Life cites in its cultural-precinct funding case tracks the bus timetable at least as well as it tracks the trail.

@misc{slop_xiihn7,
  author       = {Petra Umbile and Ingrid Vasseur},
  title        = {Stopped, Not Scanned: Interviewing Campus Life Staff and Passers-by on What the Sculpture Trail's QR-Plaque Count Was Assumed to Measure},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.xiihn7},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-interviewing-campus-life-xiihn7/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}