Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Haptic Icon(also: Hapticon)
- A short, structured vibrotactile or force pattern designed to carry meaning in the same way a graphical icon or audio earcon does, allowing users to recognize a category of information — an alert, material, identity, or state — through touch alone. The concept generalizes…
- Haptic Rendering(also: Haptic display rendering)
- The process of computing and outputting touch-based signals — forces, vibrations, textures, or friction — so that a user can perceive virtual or remote objects through the sense of touch. Haptic rendering covers kinesthetic rendering (force feedback via joysticks, exoskeletons,…
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