Field notes
Field notes from the sittings
Short letters from audits and sittings. They stay with named rooms, clocks, and phones — the same grain as the work itself.
Two language tracks, one announcement clock
Copying an English-room hour into a Bahasa room ignored Maghrib and made kind replies look scarce.
When a sticker tray hides the reply field
On smaller campus-lab phones, a new sticker pack covered the box where newcomers type. Hosts thought the room had gone shy.
What a Kuching food group taught us about reply timing
Hawkers replied at lunch; photographers arrived after eight. The sitting had to separate those two clocks.
Reading mute rates without turning the room against itself
Mutes are a courtesy people extend when pings arrive during family hours. Treat them as weather, not as a score.
First-week silence in a community app
Newcomers who pass three welcome cards and then hear nothing from a human host often leave before the seventh morning.