Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Tactile Stimulation(also: Tactile Feedback, Cutaneous Stimulation)
- Tactile stimulation refers to the use of physical sensations delivered to the skin to convey information, typically through vibrations, pin arrays, textures, or pressure changes. In assistive technology, tactile stimulation is fundamental to braille displays, haptic interfaces,…
- Texture Perception(also: Texture sense, Tactile texture perception)
- The perceptual capacity to detect and characterize surface properties — roughness, smoothness, bumpiness, graininess, stickiness, and directional patterns — through touch, vision, or cross-modal integration. Texture perception draws on multiple tactile channels including…
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