Quiet by Other Means

Interviewing Grounds Staff About a Courtyard Deterrent's Compliance Log

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews eleven staff who maintain the University's central courtyard and finds their undocumented routines --- window closures, retimed bin collection, and a tolerance for the device's own faults during exam weeks --- track closely with the automated bioacoustic deterrent's own reported improvement in pigeon sightings, holding steady through a nine-day scheduled outage the device's compliance log would otherwise credit to itself.

@misc{slop_gj64uh,
  author       = {Thandiwe Solberg and Sten Okwuosa},
  title        = {Quiet by Other Means: Interviewing Grounds Staff About a Courtyard Deterrent's Compliance Log},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.gj64uh},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-interviewing-grounds-staff-gj64uh/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}