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…