Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
126 results found in Interaction Design.
- Virtual Wall (Haptic Wall, Haptic Boundary)
- A simulated physical boundary in a haptic interface that the user can feel through a force-feedback device, modelled as a massless plate backed by a spring with stiffness and a damper with viscosity. …
- Visual Orchestration (Visual Attention Management)
- A design orientation, articulated by Huffman et al. (2026), for deliberately coordinating visual cues, salience, timing, and layout so that participants in a shared environment know where to look, whe…
- Visual Programming (Visual Programming Language, Block-Based Programming)
- A programming paradigm that allows users to create programs by manipulating graphical elements — such as blocks, nodes, and connecting paths — rather than writing text-based code. Popular examples inc…
- Voice Interface (Speech Interface, Voice User Interface, VUI, Conversational Interface)
- An interface that allows users to interact with a system using spoken natural language commands rather than keyboard, mouse, or touch input. Voice interfaces range from simple command-and-control syst…
- Web Navigation (Website Navigation, Web Browsing Navigation)
- The process of moving through and finding information on websites, encompassing strategies like following links, using search, scanning headings, and interacting with menus and filters. Web navigation…
- Zoom cycling (Zoom toggling, Magnification cycling)
- An interaction behaviour observed in screen magnifier users who frequently alternate between high magnification (to read fine details like axis labels and segment boundaries) and lower magnification (…