how to better (inambiguaously) use the terms CAPTCHA and various types of interactions?

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Published on 2010-12-23T01:34:45Z Indexed on 2010/12/23 9:54 UTC
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I am working on survey of state-of-the-art and trends of spam prevention techniques.

I observe that non-intrusive, transparent to visitor spam prevention techniques (like context-based filtering or honey traps) are frequently called non-captcha.
Is it correct understanding of term CAPTCHA which is "type of challenge-response [ 2 ]test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a compute" [ 1 ] and challenge-response does not seem to imply obligatory human involvement.

So, which understanding (definition) of term and classification I'd better to stick with? How would I better call CAPTCHA without direct human interaction in order to avoid ambiguity and confusion of terms understnding?

How would I better (succinctly and unambiguously) coin the term for captchas requiring human interaction but without typing into textbox?

How would I better (succinctly and unambiguously) coin the terms to mark the difference between human interaction with images (playing, drag&dropping, rearranging, clicking with images) vs. just recognizing them (and then typing into a textbox the answer without interaction with images)?

PS.
The problem is that recognition of a wiggled word in an image or typing the answer to question is also interaction and when I start to use the terms "interaction", "interactive", "captcha", "protection", "non-captcha", "non-interactive", "static", "dynamic", "visible", "hidden" the terms overlap ambiguously with which another (especailly because the definitions or their actual practice of usage are vague or contradictive).

[ 1 ] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

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