Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
5 results found in research-methods.
- Ablation Study (Ablation Experiment)
- A methodology, common in machine-learning and systems research, in which individual components of a system are systematically removed or disabled to measure their contribution to overall performance. …
- Differential Vulnerability
- The concept that different populations face different types and degrees of risk from the same technology, based on factors such as disability, age, gender, or socioeconomic status. In accessibility an…
- HoneyPage (Honey Page)
- A purpose-built test web page used by researchers to study the behaviour of browser extensions, crawlers, or malware in a controlled environment. HoneyPages are instrumented to record network requests…
- Robo-Identity (Robot Identity, Robot Persona)
- An emerging concept in human-robot interaction research referring to the identity or persona a robot takes on, as perceived and co-constructed by the people it interacts with. Robo-identity is not a f…
- Zero-Shot Learning (Zero-Shot Prompting, Zero-Shot Inference)
- A machine-learning approach in which a model performs a task on classes or scenarios it has never seen explicit training examples for, relying entirely on its pre-trained knowledge and the structure o…