Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Activity Theory
- A conceptual framework originating in Soviet psychology (Vygotsky, Leont'ev) and widely applied in HCI, which analyses human action as goal-directed activity mediated by tools, rules, community, and d…
- Collaborative Ideation (Group brainstorming, Co-ideation)
- The joint process by which a group generates, refines, clusters, and converges on ideas, typically alternating between divergent and convergent thinking. Collaborative ideation is a cornerstone of des…
- DementiaBank
- A shared database of multimedia interactions for the study of communication in dementia, maintained as part of the TalkBank system. DementiaBank contains longitudinal recordings of people with Alzheim…
- Evaluator Effect
- The phenomenon in accessibility and usability evaluation where different evaluators examining the same interface detect different sets of problems and may reach different conclusions about the same is…
- Fitts' Law (Fitts Law)
- A predictive model of human movement in human-computer interaction that states the time required to move to a target area is a function of the distance to the target and the size of the target. Specif…
- Fleiss's Kappa (Fleiss Kappa)
- A statistical measure of inter-rater reliability for categorical ratings assigned by three or more raters, extending Cohen's Kappa beyond the two-rater case. In accessibility research, Fleiss's Kappa …
- Music Information Retrieval (MIR)
- An interdisciplinary field focused on extracting, analyzing, and organizing information from music data. Music information retrieval encompasses tasks like automatic transcription, genre classificatio…
- SIGACCESS (ACM SIGACCESS, SIGCAPH, Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing)
- The ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing, the primary professional organization within ACM dedicated to accessibility research. Originally founded as SIGCAPH (Special Interest Group on C…
- SLPAT (Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies)
- A special interest group jointly supported by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), focused on speech and language technolo…
- Trace R&D Center (Trace Center, Trace Research and Development Center)
- A pioneering research center focused on accessibility and assistive technology, originally established at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1971 and later affiliated with the University of Maryla…
- WebAIM Million (WebAIM Million Report, The WebAIM Million)
- An annual accessibility evaluation study conducted by WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind) that automatically tests the home pages of the top one million websites against WCAG 2 success criteria. The st…