Search strategies can be augmented by additional systems to improve the results of a visual inspection task.
Information regarding the item being inspected as well as appropriate method to perform the inspection could be provided to the inspector to achieve a better result.
Drury and Gramopadhye (1992) investigated various methods in which a visual inspection task could be improved.
These methods included visual lobe 4 training, feedback systems, feedforward (cueing) systems, as well as the effects of grouping, schema, and attributes.
They found that feedback and feedforward systems were the most impactful for improving visual inspection.