Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Material Perception(also: Material recognition)
- The perceptual processes by which people identify and characterize the materials that objects are made of — such as wood, metal, glass, leather, fabric, or stone — using visual, tactile, auditory, and sometimes thermal cues. Material perception goes beyond recognizing object…
- Multisensory Interaction(also: Multisensory HCI)
- Multisensory interaction is an HCI research area concerned with designing and studying systems that engage two or more human senses - sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, proprioception - simultaneously or in combination. It differs from multimodal interaction (which typically…
- Multisensory Stimulation(also: MSS)
- A therapeutic and design approach that intentionally coordinates multiple sensory modalities — visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and kinetic — to support affective well-being, cognitive engagement, and behavioral regulation. MSS has a long clinical history in dementia care…
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