Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
4 results found in User Behavior.
- AI Over-Reliance (Automation Bias (AI), Over-Reliance on AI)
- The tendency of users to accept AI system outputs — recommendations, classifications, or content — without sufficient critical evaluation, even when those outputs are wrong or biased. Over-reliance is…
- Non-Use (Technology Non-Use, Technology Refusal)
- A research tradition in HCI that takes seriously the choice not to use a technology — treating refusal, abandonment, and selective engagement as meaningful, reasoned behaviour rather than as failure. …
- Role-play (Role-playing, Roleplay)
- A social behaviour in which a person treats a non-human or virtual agent as if it had a character, feelings, or agency — narrating its actions, giving it a name, addressing it in character, and ration…
- Social Proof
- A psychological and behavioural phenomenon in which people rely on the choices, ratings, and reviews of others as evidence when making decisions under uncertainty. In digital accessibility contexts, s…