Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
22 results found in Generative AI.
- AI Proxy (AI Proxying)
- A design pattern in which an AI system acts on a user's behalf within a social, communicative, or interpretive setting — for example, generating a facial expression, voice, or written reply that repre…
- AI-Generated Content (AIGC)
- An umbrella term for text, images, audio, video, and other media produced by generative AI systems — especially large language models and diffusion-based text-to-image or text-to-video models — in res…
- AI-Generated Speech (Synthetic Speech, AI Speech)
- Speech audio produced by artificial intelligence systems — typically neural text-to-speech or voice cloning models — rather than recorded from a human speaker. Deaf and hard-of-hearing content creator…
- Chain-of-Thought (CoT, Chain of Thought Reasoning, Step-by-Step Reasoning)
- Chain-of-thought is a prompting and model-design technique in which a large language model produces its intermediate reasoning steps before giving a final answer. Modern reasoning models (e.g., OpenAI…
- ChatGPT (GPT, OpenAI ChatGPT)
- ChatGPT is a conversational generative AI assistant developed by OpenAI, based on the GPT family of large language models. Users interact via a text chat interface and, in newer versions, through voic…
- Computer-Using Agent (CUA)
- An AI agent, typically built on a Large Multimodal Model, that perceives a computer's graphical user interface through screenshots, reasons about on-screen context, and directly manipulates the interf…
- DALL-E (DALL-E 2, DALL-E 3, DALLE)
- A family of text-to-image generative AI models developed by OpenAI that produces images from natural-language prompts. DALL-E models are widely used by content creators, including people with disabili…
- ElevenLabs
- A commercial AI voice platform that generates realistic synthetic speech and voice clones from text. ElevenLabs is used in accessibility contexts for producing narrated video voiceovers, audiobook-sty…
- Human-AI Co-Creation (Human-AI Co-Creative, Co-Creative AI, Mixed-Initiative Co-Creation)
- Human-AI co-creation refers to creative work in which a person and an AI system iteratively contribute to the same artifact, with each shaping the other's next move rather than the AI acting as a one-…
- LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)
- A parameter-efficient fine-tuning technique, introduced by Hu et al. in 2022, in which a large pretrained neural network is specialised by training only a pair of small low-rank matrices that modify s…
- Microsoft Copilot (Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot in Excel)
- Microsoft Copilot is a family of generative AI assistants integrated into Microsoft 365 applications including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, as well as GitHub and Windows. In Excel and …
- Momentous Depiction
- A conceptual framework proposed by Niu, Clements, and Kim (2026) for using generative AI to visualize critical moments that convey the insights and meanings of disability in storytelling videos. The f…
- 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, …
- Reassurance Robot
- A term coined by Grace Barkhuff (CHI 2026) to describe generative AI systems — such as ChatGPT — that, by default, provide reassurance, confession-hearing, and decision-making on demand, thereby accom…
- Stable Diffusion
- An open-weights latent text-to-image diffusion model released by Stability AI in 2022. It operates by iteratively denoising a random latent tensor, conditioned on text embeddings produced by a frozen …
- Story Completer
- A design role for generative AI in storytelling, proposed by Niu, Clements, and Kim (2026), in which AI systems complete and enrich stories authored by human creators rather than generating full story…
- 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 …
- Text-to-Audio (Text-to-Audio Generation, TTA)
- A class of generative AI models that synthesise non-speech sound (environmental sounds, sound effects, music stems) from a text prompt - for example producing the sound of 'leaves rustling in wind' or…
- Text-to-Image Model (T2I Model, T2I, Text-to-Image Generator)
- A generative AI system that produces images from natural-language prompts. Prominent examples include DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney. In accessibility contexts, text-to-image models have bee…
- Text-to-Sound (Text-to-Audio, TTA, Sound Generation from Text)
- A class of generative AI models that synthesize non-speech audio - sound effects, ambient environments, foley, or short music clips - from a natural-language description such as 'a door creaking shut'…