Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
56 results found in research methodology.
- Rehabilitation Engineering (Rehab Engineering)
- An engineering discipline focused on quantifying, measuring, and modeling human performance to provide better-fitting assistive technology adaptations. Rehabilitation engineering emerged partly as a r…
- Representative Users (Target Users, Intended Users)
- Study participants who share the relevant characteristics of the population for whom a technology or solution is being designed. In accessibility research, this means including people with the actual …
- Researcher Bias (Investigator Bias)
- The influence of a researcher's own perspectives, assumptions, and identity on how they design studies, ask questions, and interpret data. In accessibility research, researcher bias can manifest when …
- Sampling Bias (Selection Bias, Participation Bias)
- A systematic error in research caused by non-random selection of participants, resulting in a sample that does not accurately represent the target population. In accessibility research, sampling bias …
- Scoping Review (Scoping Study)
- A scoping review is a type of research synthesis that systematically maps the existing literature on a broad topic to identify key concepts, gaps in evidence, and types of available research. Unlike s…
- Single Case Experimental Design (SCED, Single Subject Design, N-of-1 Design)
- A research methodology in which individual participants serve as their own control, with repeated measurements taken during baseline and intervention phases to evaluate the effect of a treatment or in…
- Situated action (Situated cognition, Situated practice)
- A theoretical framework from sociology and HCI holding that human actions and decisions are fundamentally shaped by the specific social, material, and temporal context in which they occur, rather than…
- Skin Conductance (SC, Skin Conductance Response, SCR, Skin Conductance Level, SCL)
- A measure of the electrical conductance of the skin, which increases with sweat gland activity. Skin conductance is commonly used as an index of emotional arousal or sympathetic nervous system activat…
- Social Desirability Bias (Impression Management)
- A type of response bias in which research participants answer questions in a way that presents themselves favorably rather than truthfully, either to project a positive self-image or to avoid judgment…
- Socio-Technical Aspirations
- Individual- or community-driven ambition and desire to own or use a specific technology for personal benefit or societal acceptance or both. This concept, introduced by Sharma et al. (2020) as an exte…
- Socio-Technical Grounded Theory (STGT)
- Socio-Technical Grounded Theory (STGT) is a qualitative research methodology adapted from classical Grounded Theory for studying technology within its social and organisational context. It extends the…
- Spearman correlation (Spearman rank correlation, Spearman's rho)
- A non-parametric statistical measure of the strength and direction of the monotonic relationship between two ranked variables, ranging from -1 to +1. In accessibility evaluation research, Spearman cor…
- Stakeholder Research (Stakeholder Analysis, Stakeholder Involvement)
- A research approach that identifies and engages all parties who have an interest in or are affected by a technology, product, or service. In accessibility research, stakeholder research involves consu…
- System Usability Scale (SUS)
- A widely used 10-item Likert scale questionnaire developed by John Brooke in 1996 that provides a quick, reliable measure of perceived usability. Scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicat…
- Usage analytics (Telemetry, Interaction logging)
- The collection and analysis of data about how users interact with a technology system in real-world settings, including session duration, feature usage frequency, settings preferences, and interaction…
- Within-Subjects Design (Repeated Measures Design, Crossover Design)
- A research methodology in which the same participants are exposed to all conditions or treatments being compared, with each participant serving as their own control. In accessibility research, within-…