Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
67 results found in Research Methodology.
- Novelty Effect (Novelty bias)
- A research-methodology concept describing the tendency for users to behave differently with a new technology simply because it is new, rather than because of its enduring value. Novelty effects inflat…
- PRISMA-ScR (PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews)
- PRISMA-ScR is the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews - a 20-item checklist and flow diagram that standardises how scoping reviews are repo…
- 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…
- Practice-based Research (PbR)
- A research approach, associated with Candy and Edmonds, in which creative practice itself is the vehicle for original inquiry and knowledge generation. Research questions arise from and are resolved t…
- 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 …
- Quality of Perception (QoP)
- An evaluation framework from the multimedia-accessibility research literature for measuring how well a user can understand and use a media presentation, combining objective comprehension metrics (e.g.…
- 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 …
- Residual Category (Residual Categories)
- A concept from Susan Leigh Star describing the "other" or "not applicable" categories in classification systems — the bucket where anything that does not fit predefined types gets placed. Individuals …
- Resistant Reading (Reading Against the Grain, Resistant Reader)
- A critical reading method, originally articulated by feminist literary theorist Judith Fetterley, that refuses the interpretive framework an author invites the reader to adopt and instead reads texts …
- Response Bias (Survey Bias, Respondent Bias)
- A systematic tendency for survey respondents to answer questions in a way that does not accurately reflect their true opinions or experiences. In accessibility research, response bias is particularly …
- Routine Infrastructuring
- A concept developed by Bryan Semaan describing community practices through which marginalised and oppressed groups continually reconfigure sociotechnical arrangements to sustain everyday life under pe…
- Score Prediction (Predicted grade, Comprehension self-prediction)
- A subjective-response evaluation item in which a research participant, immediately after reading a passage and before learning their actual comprehension-question score, estimates the percentage of qu…
- Semantically Unpredictable Sentences (SUS, SUS Test)
- A standardised method for evaluating speech intelligibility in which listeners are presented with sentences that are grammatically correct but semantically meaningless, such as "A polite art jumps ben…
- Semi-Automatic Wizard-of-Oz (Semi-Automatic WoZ)
- A hybrid Wizard-of-Oz study methodology in which part of a prototype system is implemented with real automation while a human researcher (the 'wizard') intervenes only for components that are not yet …
- 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…
- Single-Case Study (Single-Subject Design, Single-Case Experimental Design, N-of-1 Study, ABA Design)
- A research methodology in which an individual participant serves as their own control, with systematic measurement of behavior across different conditions such as baseline and intervention phases. The…
- Single-Subject Case Study (Single-Case Design, N-of-1 Study, Single-Subject Research Design)
- A single-subject case study is a research methodology that focuses on detailed observation and analysis of one individual (or a small number of individuals) over time, rather than comparing group aver…
- Social Desirability Bias (Impression Management)
- A type of response bias where participants answer questions in a manner they believe will be viewed favorably by others rather than responding truthfully. In accessibility research contexts, this can …
- Socio-Gerontechnology
- A theoretical framework, developed by Alexander Peine and Louis Neven, that analyses aging and technology as mutually constitutive: technologies do not simply serve pre-existing aging needs, and aging…
- Speaking Behavior (Speaker Behavior, Speech Behavior)
- In accessibility and HCI research, the observable communicative behaviors a speaker exhibits during conversation — including speech rate, voice intensity (loudness), articulation clarity (including hy…