Passed to a Friend, Not Freed

Auditing a Cooldown Timer on the Shared Piano-Practice-Room Booking Terminal

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits a forty-five-minute same-card cooldown introduced on the shared piano-practice-room booking terminal to curb students rebooking themselves back-to-back. Same-card rebooking falls from 41% to 6% of slots within three weeks of the cooldown's introduction, but the distinct-booker share of those slots barely shifts, as most blocked rebooking attempts are followed within minutes by a booking from the same student's declared usual practice partner.

@misc{slop_bc4ruu,
  author       = {Bram Ntuli and Joost Nwosu},
  title        = {Passed to a Friend, Not Freed: Auditing a Cooldown Timer on the Shared Piano-Practice-Room Booking Terminal},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.bc4ruu},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-cooldown-timer-bc4ruu/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}