Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Ambiguous Loss
- Ambiguous loss, a concept articulated by Pauline Boss, is 'a situation of unclear loss that remains unverified and thus without resolution'. Boss distinguishes two types: physical loss where someone is 'gone, but not for sure' (for example, a missing person) and psychological…
- Continuing Bonds
- Continuing bonds is a theory of grief, developed by Klass, Silverman and Nickman in the 1990s, which holds that healthy mourning often involves maintaining an ongoing relationship with a deceased or absent loved one rather than achieving closure and 'letting go'.…
- Disenfranchised Grief
- Disenfranchised grief, a concept developed by Kenneth Doka, describes the experience of people who 'incur a loss that is not, or cannot be, openly acknowledged, publicly mourned or socially supported'. Because the relationship or loss lies outside what a society recognises as…
- Griefbot(also: Deadbot)
- A griefbot (sometimes 'deadbot') is an AI chatbot trained on the written, voice or video communications of a deceased person, intended to let bereaved loved ones continue a simulated dialogue with them. Griefbots are a specific application of continuing-bonds practice and raise…
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