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Ablation Study(also: Ablation Experiment)

A methodology, common in machine-learning and systems research, in which individual components of a system are systematically removed or disabled to measure their contribution to overall performance. In accessibility testing research, ablation studies are used to justify design…

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,…

HoneyPage(also: Honey Page)

A purpose-built test web page used by researchers to study the behaviour of browser extensions, crawlers, or malware in a controlled environment. HoneyPages are instrumented to record network requests, JS API calls, and cookies, and are often designed with known accessibility…

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…

Zero-Shot Learning(also: Zero-Shot Prompting, Zero-Shot Inference)

A machine-learning approach in which a model performs a task on classes or scenarios it has never seen explicit training examples for, relying entirely on its pre-trained knowledge and the structure of the prompt or input. In LLM-based accessibility testing, zero-shot prompting…

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