Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Body Awareness(also: Body Schema, Body Image)
- The understanding of one's own body including its structure, posture, position in space, and relationship to the environment. Body awareness encompasses both the physical sense of where body parts are (proprioception) and the cognitive understanding of body shape, proportions,…
- Body Ownership Illusion(also: BOI)
- A perceptual phenomenon in virtual reality where users perceive a virtual body or avatar as their own, experiencing it as an extension of their physical self. This illusion is fostered when the virtual representation performs the same actions as the user's actual body, such as…
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