Glossary: Research
Heuristic Research
Research approach that focuses on generating knowledge through exploration and in-depth and immersive engagement of the researcher. The approach can be subjective as the researcher is required to use their own intuition, creativity, and insight.
Holistic Perspective
Taking as many as possible actions or communications of a whole phenomenon of a certain community or culture into account in research.
Hypertext
In hypertext, documents are linked together through hyperlinks, which are clickable elements that enable users to jump from one document or section to another seamlessly.
Hypothesis
A tentative and testable explanation or educated guess based on theory or observation that is used to predict a causal relationship between variables.