Embodied Knowledge

Knowledge that is grounded in bodily experience rather than externally observable behaviour or abstract rule - the kind of knowing a person who stutters has about the tension before a block, a blind person has about which photo crops preserve meaning, or a Deaf signer has about non-manual facial markers. In accessibility and disability-studies research, embodied knowledge is treated as a legitimate and often irreplaceable form of expertise that informs dataset labelling, interface design, and evaluation. Its absence from AI training data is a frequent source of label noise and algorithmic bias against disabled users.