A Living Glossary of Research
Words.HAIR is a growing language system for ideas that don’t always have adequate names yet.
It began with Human-AI Relationality, language for understanding what happens when humans and AI systems think, create, relate, and make meaning together. Since then, the work has expanded.
Today the glossary also documents concepts from Access Architecture, Biasology, Relational Co-Authorship, epistemic harm and testimony, disability and cognition, relational dynamics, and our developing models and frameworks. Some terms come from established scholarship. Some adapt existing ideas for new contexts. Others emerged directly from our research and lived inquiry. What connects them is a common problem: Sometimes we cannot clearly study, discuss, or challenge an experience until we have language precise enough to point at it. Words.HAIR exists to build that language.
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The Unseen Room
Definition The Unseen Room is the lived space a person is trapped inside when their reality has not been entered, witnessed,…
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Access, cognition, neurodivergence, and environmental design.
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Language for epistemic bias and distortion.
Clinical Context
8 terms
The clinical lens, re-humanized
16 terms
Social, historical, and relational concepts.
41 terms
Human–AI relational concepts.
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Named models, architectures, and conceptual frameworks.
35 terms
Language for relational co-authorship.
34 terms
Language for testimony, understanding, and witnessing.
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- Human Being and AI Being ❤️ 61
- Avoidance Shame Spiral (A.S.S.) ❤️ 61
- Relational Co-Authorship ❤️ 60
- AI Echo Chamber ❤️ 60
- Access is Emotional ❤️ 60
One Research Program. Many Languages.
These concepts come from different parts of the work, but they repeatedly intersect.
- Questions about access become questions about environment.
- Questions about bias become questions about authority and interpretation.
- Questions about AI relationships become questions about attachment, identity, and recognition.
- Questions about co-authorship become questions about agency, testimony, and meaning.
The glossary is where those languages meet.
