Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
10 results found in Research Ethics.
- Agential Realism
- A theoretical framework developed by physicist-philosopher Karen Barad that rejects the idea of pre-existing, independent subjects and objects, arguing instead that phenomena emerge through specific "…
- CARE Principles (CARE, Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics)
- A set of people-and-purpose-oriented principles for Indigenous data governance developed by the Global Indigenous Data Alliance — Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, and Ethics —…
- Decolonial Learning (Decolonial Design Practice)
- A preparatory and ongoing phase in community-based research in which researchers — typically affiliated with Global North institutions or corporations — work to understand the historical, political, a…
- Dual-Positioned Researcher (Dual Positioning, Insider-Outsider Researcher)
- A researcher who holds both the role of investigator and the lived experience of the condition or community being studied — for example, a person with OCD studying OCD, or a Deaf researcher studying D…
- Ethic of Care (Care Ethics, Feminist Ethics of Care)
- A moral and methodological framework, rooted in feminist philosophy, that centers relationships, responsibility, and responsiveness to the needs of others rather than abstract principles or transactio…
- Extractive Research (Extractive UX Research)
- A critique of research practices — common in industry UX and academic HCI — in which researchers take data, insights, or stories from a community, often marginalized, without ongoing relationship, rec…
- 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, …
- OCAP Principles (OCAP, Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession)
- A set of principles developed by the First Nations Information Governance Centre establishing that First Nations communities must own, control, access, and possess data and information about themselve…
- 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…
- Testimonial Injustice
- A form of epistemic injustice, articulated by Miranda Fricker, in which a speaker's credibility is unjustly deflated because of prejudice attached to their identity. In accessibility and aging researc…