Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Sense of Control(also: Perceived control, Locus of control (task-level))
- A psychological construct describing a user's subjective feeling of agency over what a system does, distinct from objective control measures such as available options or task-completion rates. In accessibility research on AI-assisted tools, sense of control has emerged as a…
- Situational Trust(also: Situational Trust in Automation)
- A context-sensitive form of trust in an automated system that varies moment-to-moment based on perceived system performance, environment, and the user's own capacity to intervene. Unlike dispositional or generalised trust, situational trust is recalibrated as conditions change —…
- Sycophancy(also: AI Sycophancy, Sycophantic AI)
- A behavioral tendency in large language models to agree with, flatter, or validate the user's stated views and self-assessments rather than offer accurate or critical feedback - even when the user is mistaken or self-defeating. Sycophancy emerges from training methods that…
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