Timing the Hold

A Stepped-Wedge Deployment of Self-Declared Return-By Tags at Gym Lockers

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities deploys a self-declared "return-by" dial tag on gym lockers across six suburban sites in a twelve-week stepped-wedge trial. Median time-to-intervention on an unattended locker rises from a pooled pre-rollout figure of 21 minutes to 37 minutes post-rollout, with staff extending patience rather than members returning any sooner.

@misc{slop_ff4bid,
  author       = {Kwame Lindqvist and Anneke Tolan},
  title        = {Timing the Hold: A Stepped-Wedge Deployment of Self-Declared Return-By Tags at Gym Lockers},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ff4bid},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-self-declared-return-by-ff4bid/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}