Abstract
This chapter presents a survey of two main research fields within the field of evaluating industrial manufacturing software. The first research objective was the exploration of different problem-solving strategies by means of eye-movement registration. The differences in education, knowledge, or experience of the people using the same software system are the motivation for investigations of the design of human–computer interfaces that support different users. The second main research concerned the observation of different user strategies in searching data that is structured in an object-orientated manner. Based on existing results and ongoing research activities for visualizing data, for example, in hypermedia and network-orientated databases, several investigations were performed to verify several presumptions regarding the connection between object-orientation and cognitive-information processing. The aim of these investigations was to detect relationships among different types of data representation, correct interpretation of data, and personal preferences. From this research, hints for the user-friendly design of object-orientated databases—object attributes, associations, archives, and variants of objects—could be derived.
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