Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
20 results found in Qualitative Research.
- Body Sheet (Body Map, Body Mapping)
- A body sheet is an outline drawing of the human body (typically front, back, and side views) used as a canvas onto which participants map bodily sensations, emotions, or symptoms. Originating in art t…
- Close Reading
- A qualitative analytic method in which researchers slowly and attentively examine a text, image, or artifact, documenting observable features and interpretive responses in detail. In accessibility res…
- Codebook (Research) (Coding Manual, Qualitative Codebook)
- A codebook is a structured set of codes, definitions, and application rules used to systematically analyse qualitative data (interview transcripts, observation notes, documents) or to extract data fro…
- Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT)
- A qualitative research methodology developed by Kathy Charmaz that adapts classic grounded theory by acknowledging that the researcher's theoretical commitments and lived experience shape the categori…
- Counternarratives (Counter-storytelling, Critical Counter-narrative)
- A qualitative research and pedagogical technique, rooted in critical race theory and education research (Solórzano & Yosso, 2002), in which members of marginalized groups write and share their own sto…
- Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ)
- A short, open-ended reflective tool developed by Stephen Brookfield for teaching and learning contexts, typically consisting of five questions asking participants to recall moments from a recent exper…
- Delphi Method (Delphi Technique, Delphi Interview)
- A structured research technique originally developed by the RAND Corporation for forecasting, in which a panel of experts participates in multiple rounds of questioning to reach consensus on a topic. …
- Ethnographic Study (Ethnography, Ethnographic Research)
- A qualitative research methodology originating in anthropology that involves prolonged, immersive observation of people in their natural environments to understand their behaviours, practices, and soc…
- Ethnography (Ethnographic Research, Ethnographic Methods)
- A qualitative research methodology originating in anthropology that involves observing people in their natural environments to understand their behaviours, practices, and social interactions in contex…
- Heavy Disguise
- A research-ethics technique introduced by Amy Bruckman (2002) for handling quotes and user-generated content drawn from public online spaces. Under heavy disguise the researcher rephrases quotations, …
- Information Power
- A sample-adequacy principle for qualitative research, proposed by Malterud, Siersma, and Guassora (2016), which holds that the more information a study sample holds that is relevant to the research qu…
- Interaction Analysis
- A qualitative research method for studying knowledge and action in interaction with people, objects, and environments — typically through close observation of video or screen recordings, annotating vi…
- Narrative-Flip Method (Narrative flip)
- A qualitative HCI research method in which participants first encounter a technology or artifact without knowing its origins or intent, reflect on it, and only afterwards are told its disability-led, …
- Phenomenology (Phenomenological Inquiry)
- Phenomenology is a philosophical tradition and research methodology concerned with the structures of lived, first-person experience. Originating with Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty, it emphasiz…
- Positionality Statement (Reflexivity Statement)
- A short written statement, most commonly found in qualitative research papers and accessibility HCI publications, in which authors articulate the personal, cultural, professional, and disability-relat…
- Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA)
- A systematic qualitative research method for interpreting the content of text, interview transcripts, or other communication data by coding recurring patterns and organizing them into categories. QCA …
- Reflection-in-Action (Reflection-on-Action)
- A concept from Donald Schön's theory of reflective practice (The Reflective Practitioner, 1983) describing how skilled practitioners adjust their approach in the moment, based on tacit knowledge and i…
- Reflexive Ethnography
- Reflexive ethnography is an approach to ethnographic research in which the researcher explicitly documents and analyses how their own identity, assumptions, relationships and shifting position in the …
- Reflexivity (Researcher Reflexivity)
- A research practice in which scholars continuously examine how their own identities, positions, assumptions, disciplinary training, and power relationships shape the research they conduct — the questi…
- Semi-structured Interview (Semi-structured Interviewing)
- A semi-structured interview is a qualitative research method in which the interviewer works from a guide of open-ended topics or questions but adapts the order, wording, and depth of probing to the fl…