Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Shoulder Surfing
- A form of visual eavesdropping where an attacker observes a person entering sensitive information such as passwords, PINs, or personal data by looking over their shoulder or from a nearby vantage point. Shoulder surfing is a particularly significant security concern for people…
- Subtle Interaction(also: Discreet interaction)
- A design approach in which interactions with a device or digital system are intentionally minimized in visibility, amplitude, or audibility to reduce social disruption, preserve user privacy, and support use in public or semi-public contexts. Subtle interactions include…
- Surveillance
- The systematic, focused, and often routine observation of people, their activities, or their data for purposes of influence, management, entitlement, or control. In accessibility and HCI research, surveillance is an analytical frame used to examine how monitoring technologies —…
- Surveillance technology(also: Surveillance tech, Monitoring technology)
- Technologies that collect, analyse, and track data about individuals' behaviours, locations, bodies, or communications. In disability contexts, surveillance technology raises justice concerns because assistive tools (computer vision for blind users, behaviour monitoring for…
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