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Emotion Recognition(also: Facial Emotion Recognition, FER, Affect Recognition)

AI technology that attempts to identify human emotional states from facial expressions, voice patterns, body language, or physiological signals. Emotion recognition systems have been widely criticized for poor accuracy, cultural bias, and particular harm to people with…

Empathy Simulation(also: Disability Simulation, Impairment Simulation)

A design technique where non-disabled people temporarily simulate a disability experience — such as wearing a blindfold, using a wheelchair, or restricting hand movement — to develop empathy and understanding for people with disabilities. While widely used in design education…

Emulated Empathy

Emulated empathy is the design strategy, central to AI companion systems, of producing interactional cues - attentive language, affective mirroring, memory of previously shared information - that simulate an empathic relationship without the system possessing any subjective…

Enforced Trust(also: Compelled Trust)

A dynamic in which blind people are required to trust technologies, sighted individuals, and systems without having independent means to verify the information or outputs provided to them. Enforced trust arises from the knowledge imbalance where blind users cannot directly…

Epistemic Injustice(also: Knowledge Injustice)

A form of injustice that occurs when someone is wronged in their capacity as a knower — either by having their testimony dismissed or undervalued (testimonial injustice) or by lacking the conceptual resources to understand their own experience (hermeneutical injustice). In…

Ethics Washing(also: Ethics-Washing)

The practice of creating the illusion of high ethical standards through superficial transparency efforts, ethics committees, or principles documentation while actual practices do not reflect these stated values. In technology contexts, ethics washing may involve publishing AI…

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