Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Semantic Hearing(also: Programmable Hearing, Intent-Aware Hearing)
- A research paradigm and class of systems that treat the user's auditory environment as something programmable: rather than uniformly amplifying or suppressing all sound, the wearable headphone or earbud uses on-device machine learning to selectively extract or attenuate specific…
- Small Language Model(also: SLM)
- A language model, typically ranging from tens of millions to a few billion parameters, designed to run on consumer or edge devices rather than in centralized cloud data centers. Small language models sacrifice some of the broad general knowledge of frontier large language models…
- Symbiotic Learning
- Symbiotic Learning is a conceptual framing introduced by Jiang et al. (CHI 2026) describing a mode of mixed-ability family learning in which parents and children mutually enable each other's participation and development through AI-mediated communication. Rather than positioning…
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