Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
27 results found in Participatory Design.
- Participatory Evaluation (PE)
- A research approach in which the people affected by a program, technology, or intervention are actively involved in evaluating it, rather than being passive subjects of assessment. In accessibility re…
- Participatory Speculative Design (PSD, Social Dreaming)
- A design research approach that combines speculative design — imagining alternative futures and artifacts that do not yet exist — with participatory methods that position community members, particular…
- Proxy Feedback (Proxy User Testing, Surrogate Feedback)
- A user research method in which feedback on designs or prototypes is gathered from people who are close to the target users — such as carers, therapists, family members, or support workers — rather th…
- Pseudo-participation (Pseudo-participation by Design)
- A term coined by Palacin et al. (2020) to describe forms of user involvement in design that appear participatory on the surface but grant participants limited power to shape outcomes. In accessibility…
- Situated Learning
- A theory of learning, associated with Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, which holds that knowledge is not primarily abstract information transferred between minds but an embodied practice acquired through…
- Situated Play Design (SPD)
- Situated Play Design is a design approach developed by Altarriba Bertran and colleagues that treats play as something emergent from a specific social, physical, and cultural setting rather than someth…
- User Elicitation (Elicitation study, Gesture elicitation study, User-defined gestures)
- A participatory user-research method, widely used in gesture and interaction design, in which end users or domain experts are shown a desired system effect (a "referent" such as "rotate this object") …