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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Bite Acquisition
In robot-assisted feeding, the stage in which a robot uses a utensil to pick up a piece of food from a plate or bowl. Bite acquisition is a core technical challenge in assistive feeding robotics because foods vary enormously in compliance, friction, and geometry (e.g., spearing…
Bite Transfer
In robot-assisted feeding, the stage of the feeding cycle in which a robot arm moves food already on a utensil from a pickup location into the user's mouth. Bite transfer is distinct from bite acquisition (picking food up from a plate) and is the most physically intimate and…

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