Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
67 results found in Research Methodology.
- 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…
- Ethnomethodology
- A sociological approach, founded by Harold Garfinkel, that studies the everyday methods people use to make sense of and produce social order in interaction - the implicit rules and shared practices th…
- Evaluator Effect
- The evaluator effect refers to the phenomenon where different accessibility evaluators identify different sets of problems when assessing the same website, leading to variability in evaluation results…
- Experience-Based Co-Design (EBCD)
- A participatory methodology originally developed in UK health services research that treats people's lived experience - their 'emotional touch-points' of confusion, frustration, or insight - as the co…
- Explanatory Sequential Design (Sequential Explanatory Design, QUAN → QUAL)
- A mixed-methods research design in which a quantitative phase is conducted first — typically a survey or other structured measurement — and its results are then used to guide a follow-up qualitative p…
- Feasibility Study (Feasibility Trial, Pilot Study)
- A feasibility study is a small-scale investigation conducted before a full-scale trial to determine whether a planned intervention or system can be delivered as intended in its real-world setting. Fea…
- Feminist HCI
- An approach to human-computer interaction research and design articulated by Shaowen Bardzell that brings feminist theory, values, and methods into HCI practice. Feminist HCI foregrounds pluralism, em…
- Implementation Science
- The study of methods and strategies that promote the systematic uptake of research findings and evidence-based practices into routine clinical, educational, or service settings. Implementation science…
- Information Foraging Theory (IFT)
- A theory proposed by Pirolli and Card describing how people seek information by adaptively optimising for maximum information gain with minimum effort, analogous to animal foraging. Key constructs inc…
- 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…
- Infrastructural Inversion
- A methodological move, articulated by Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, that foregrounds the usually invisible infrastructure underpinning everyday action — categories, standards, procedures, sile…
- Infrastructuring
- A theoretical lens from HCI, CSCW, and participatory design (developed from the work of Susan Leigh Star, Karen Ruhleder, Volkmar Pipek, and Volker Wulf) that treats infrastructure not as a finished a…
- 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…
- Krippendorff's Alpha (Krippendorff Alpha, Kalpha)
- A statistical measure of inter-rater agreement used to assess how consistently two or more coders classify the same qualitative data. Developed by Klaus Krippendorff, the metric handles any number of …
- Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP)
- A concept from Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger's situated-learning theory describing how newcomers join a community of practice by first participating in peripheral, lower-stakes activities and gradually…
- Likert Scale (Likert-type Scale, Rating Scale)
- A psychometric scale commonly used in surveys and questionnaires where respondents indicate their level of agreement with a statement, typically using options ranging from "strongly disagree" to "stro…
- Literacy Bias (Literacy bias of a metric)
- In accessibility research methodology, a literacy bias describes the phenomenon where an evaluation metric systematically produces different scores for participants with different reading-literacy lev…
- Narrative Engagement (Story Engagement)
- A multidimensional construct used in media studies and HCI research to capture how deeply a viewer is drawn into a story, including narrative understanding, attentional focus, narrative presence (the …
- 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, …
- Non-Participation
- In Wenger's Communities of Practice framework, the active (rather than merely absent) relationships people have with a community they do not fully join. Wenger identifies four forms: compromise (stepp…