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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Body Sheet(also: Body Map, Body Mapping)
A body sheet is an outline drawing of the human body (typically front, back, and side views) used as a canvas onto which participants map bodily sensations, emotions, or symptoms. Originating in art therapy and physiotherapy pain-mapping practice, body sheets have been adopted…
Embodied Experience(also: Embodied Interaction, Embodiment (UX))
The dimension of user experience that arises from the body's sensory and kinaesthetic encounter with a system or environment — motion, vibration, balance, proprioception, ambient sound, and felt pace — rather than from explicit information channels. In autonomous transport,…
Embodied Exploration
An approach to virtual environment interaction in which the user builds understanding of a space by physically walking, turning, reaching, and sweeping rather than by teleporting or using controller-based locomotion. Embodied exploration is particularly important for blind and…
Embodied Sketching
Embodied sketching is a participatory design method in which participants and designers physically act out interaction ideas with their bodies, props, and the surrounding space rather than only sketching them on paper or screen. It surfaces movement, social, and sensory…
Interactive Dance(also: Interactive Dance Performance, Digital Dance)
A performance genre in which dancers' movements, physiology, or prop interactions are captured in real time (via motion capture, biosensors, or sensor-equipped objects) and used to drive digital visual or audio output — most commonly projected backdrops, lighting effects, or…
Somaesthetics
Somaesthetics is a philosophical discipline, developed by Richard Shusterman, that treats the living, sentient, purposive body (the soma) as both a locus of aesthetic appreciation and a medium of creative self-fashioning. It integrates analytical, pragmatic, and practical…

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