Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Hackability
- A methodology and design philosophy for encouraging DIY assistive technology development in which disabled people, allies, and professionals collaboratively hack, adapt, and remix existing objects into personalized assistive solutions. Hackability events bring together makers…
- Haptic Field of View(also: Tactile Field of View, Haptic Aperture)
- The limited area that can be perceived through touch at any given moment, analogous to the visual field of view but much more restricted. While vision allows perception of an entire scene simultaneously, touch typically provides information only from the area directly under the…
- Human-Nature Interaction(also: HNI)
- A research area within human-computer interaction concerned with how people perceive, access, and engage with natural environments, and how technology can mediate that relationship. HNI draws on environmental psychology, biophilia, and posthumanist design to study experiences…
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