Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
26 results found in critical theory.
- Queer Theory in HCI (Queering HCI, Queer Design)
- The application of queer theory to human-computer interaction research and design, challenging heteronormative and binary assumptions embedded in technology. Queer theory in HCI questions how technolo…
- 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 …
- Situated Knowledge (Situated Knowledges)
- A concept from feminist epistemology, developed by Donna Haraway, holding that all knowledge is produced from particular social, bodily, and historical positions rather than from a neutral, objective …
- 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…
- Techno-Solutionism (Technological Solutionism, Tech Solutionism)
- The belief that technology can solve complex social, political, and cultural problems, often without addressing underlying systemic causes. In accessibility, techno-solutionism manifests as the assump…
- WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic)
- An acronym standing for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic — used to describe the demographic and cultural profile of populations that dominate research samples in psychology, HCI…