Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Ekman Basic Emotions(also: Basic Emotions, Ekman's Six Basic Emotions)
- A taxonomy proposed by psychologist Paul Ekman that identifies six cross-culturally recognisable emotional expressions — happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise — as the building blocks of facial affect. The model has been foundational for computer-vision…
- EmojiGrid(also: Emoji Grid, EmojiGrid Scale)
- A two-dimensional self-report tool, developed by Toet et al. (2018), in which participants rate the emotional content of a stimulus by clicking on a point in a grid whose axes are valence (horizontal) and arousal (vertical). Rows and columns of emoji faces are arranged around…
- Emotional Mediation Hypothesis
- A theoretical account, originating in work by Palmer and colleagues, that explains cross-modal associations between sensory attributes (such as colors and musical timbres) as being mediated by shared emotional meaning rather than by direct perceptual mapping. For example, people…
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