The Sticker Outlasts the Heater

A Coding-Scheme Taxonomy of Desk Heater and Fan Registration Drift Across Two Schools

A poster from the School of Continuous Improvement applies a four-category coding scheme to 214 personal heaters and fans found across eight office floors in two Schools, classifying each by registration status against physical presence at a single ledger-lapse snapshot. Registered-but-removed entries (22%) emerge as the taxonomy's second-largest category, rivalling unregistered appliances the ledger never captured to begin with (29%).

@misc{slop_wi8z5h,
  author       = {Thandiwe Solberg and Sten Okwuosa},
  title        = {The Sticker Outlasts the Heater: A Coding-Scheme Taxonomy of Desk Heater and Fan Registration Drift Across Two Schools},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.wi8z5h},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-taxonomy-of-wi8z5h/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}