Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Care Technology(also: Care robots, Robots for care, Assistive care technology)
- Technology designed to support caregiving activities in institutional or home settings, including robotic systems, monitoring devices, and digital tools that assist care workers and care recipients. Care technology encompasses a broad range of applications from documentation…
- Closed-Loop Control(also: Feedback Control)
- A control strategy in which a system continuously measures the current state, compares it to a desired reference, and adjusts its output to minimize the error. Contrasted with open-loop control, which acts without sensing outcomes. In assistive wearables, closed-loop control is…
- Collaborative Robot(also: Cobot, Co-Robot)
- A robot designed to work alongside humans in shared workspaces, as opposed to traditional industrial robots that operate in isolation. Cobots are of particular interest for workplace inclusion because they can reduce physical workload, adapt to individual abilities, and create…
- Collision Avoidance(also: Obstacle Avoidance, Anti-Collision System)
- A safety feature in assistive technology, robotics, and intelligent wheelchairs that automatically detects obstacles in the user's path and takes action to prevent impact — typically by stopping the device, alerting the user, or redirecting movement. Collision avoidance systems…
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