Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
13 results found in Creative Arts.
- Art Therapy (Creative Arts Therapy, Arts Therapy)
- A form of psychotherapy that uses creative art-making as the primary mode of expression and communication. Art therapy is facilitated by trained therapists and can involve painting, drawing, collage, …
- Co-Creative (Co-Creativity, Co-Creative AI)
- A framing of human-AI collaboration in which the AI acts as a creative partner rather than a tool or a replacement — contributing ideas, drafts, or alternatives that the human writer, artist, or desig…
- Drake Music Project (Drake Music, DMP)
- A UK charity founded in 1988 that facilitates music-making for physically disabled people through technology. The Drake Music Project runs workshops using adapted music technology — including MIDI con…
- EyeDraw (Eye Draw)
- A software application developed at the University of Oregon that enables people with severe motor impairments, particularly children, to create freehand drawings using eye movements tracked by an eye…
- Interactive Dance (Interactive Dance Performance, Digital Dance)
- A performance genre in which dancers' movements, physiology, or prop interactions are captured in real time (via motion capture, biosensors, or sensor-equipped objects) and used to drive digital visua…
- Music GenAI (Generative Music AI, AI Music Generation)
- Generative AI systems that produce musical output — melodies, full songs, instrumental accompaniment, or vocal tracks — from text prompts, seed audio, or structured parameters. Examples include Suno, …
- Music Psychotherapy
- A form of music therapy that uses musical activities — songwriting, improvisation, lyric analysis, receptive listening — to address emotional, psychological, and relational concerns rather than sensor…
- Non-Visual Drawing (Blind Drawing, Drawing Without Sight)
- The practice of creating graphical representations — such as diagrams, shapes, charts, or illustrations — without relying on visual feedback. Non-visual drawing can be accomplished through tactile met…
- Practice-based Research (PbR)
- A research approach, associated with Candy and Edmonds, in which creative practice itself is the vehicle for original inquiry and knowledge generation. Research questions arise from and are resolved t…
- Songwriting (Therapeutic Songwriting)
- A therapeutic intervention in which a client, often collaborating with a therapist, composes original lyrics and musical elements as a way to explore emotions, reframe experiences, and build a sense o…
- Suno (Suno AI, Suno v3.5)
- A commercial generative AI platform that produces full songs — lyrics, vocals, instrumentation — from short natural-language prompts specifying genre, mood, tempo, and lyrical content. Suno is widely …
- Tactile Drawing (Tactile Picture Making)
- The process of creating raised-line images that can be perceived through touch rather than vision. Tactile drawing can be done by blind or sighted people using methods such as drawing on swell paper w…
- Visual Vernacular (VV)
- A deeply visual sign language performance art form rooted in visual storytelling, developed in the 1970s by deaf American actor Bernard Bragg and widely practiced internationally. Visual Vernacular co…