Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Differential Vulnerability
- The concept that different populations face different types and degrees of risk from the same technology, based on factors such as disability, age, gender, or socioeconomic status. In accessibility and privacy research, differential vulnerability highlights that disabled users,…
- Mirroring(also: Behavioural Mirroring, Imitative Reciprocity)
- The tendency of people in social interaction to unconsciously or deliberately copy each other's postures, gestures, expressions, and speech patterns, which psychology research identifies as a non-verbal marker of rapport and affiliation (the "chameleon effect"). In human-robot…
- Robo-Identity(also: Robot Identity, Robot Persona)
- An emerging concept in human-robot interaction research referring to the identity or persona a robot takes on, as perceived and co-constructed by the people it interacts with. Robo-identity is not a fixed property of the robot itself but is negotiated dynamically through…
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