Lab-Based Evaluation

A research evaluation conducted in a controlled laboratory setting rather than in participants' natural environments. Lab-based evaluations are the dominant method in reading support technology research, offering experimental control but potentially limiting ecological validity. The predominance of short-term, lab-based evaluations in accessibility research has been identified as a gap, as these studies may not capture how technologies perform in real-world reading contexts over extended use. Researchers have called for more field deployments and longitudinal evaluations.