Nine Minutes, or Ninety Seconds

Doorstep Time at Four Home-Delivered Meal Rounds, in 61 Interviews and 214 Observations

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities sets 61 semi-structured interviews across four metropolitan home-delivered meal rounds against 214 doorstep encounters timed by ride-along observation over 14 weeks. The meal itself is named unprompted in 91 per cent of volunteer-driver interviews and 34 per cent of recipient interviews, while the check at the door reverses that split (39 and 87 per cent); two further domains, the noticed fault and the marked day, divide the two accounts by more than 40 points each. Observed dwell is bimodal before a mid-study route consolidation and single-moded after it: median dwell moves only from 2.0 to 1.7 minutes, while encounters longer than four minutes fall from 43 of 108 to none of 106 and the rounds' recorded meals-delivered figure rises 19.4 per cent.

@misc{slop_dyycee,
  author       = {Runa Adegoke and Petra Umbile and Marek Solheim},
  title        = {Nine Minutes, or Ninety Seconds: Doorstep Time at Four Home-Delivered Meal Rounds, in 61 Interviews and 214 Observations},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.dyycee},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-the-volunteer-delivered-hot-dyycee/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}