Feasibility Study

A feasibility study is a small-scale investigation conducted before a full-scale trial to determine whether a planned intervention or system can be delivered as intended in its real-world setting. Feasibility work asks practical questions — Can we recruit? Can participants tolerate the protocol? Do the measures work? Does the technology hold up in situ? — rather than testing efficacy. In accessibility and assistive technology research, feasibility studies are common when introducing new systems to disabled users, older adults, or clinical populations, because they surface deployment constraints (consent, fatigue, fit, logistics) that controlled experiments tend to abstract away. Findings are typically descriptive and hypothesis-generating, not causal.