Skills required for non-routine situations are learned in initial training but are rarely applied during work. Such skills decay if they are not rehearsed repeatedly, e.g. in refresher interventions. A promising concept to counteract skill decay is gaze guiding, which has the potential to reduce the consequences of skill decay by means of cued recall. The present study explores whether gaze guiding can be used as an alternative to refresher interventions. Fifty-five participants learned a complex cognitive skill required for a production task. After two weeks, they recalled the initially learned skill either with support of the gaze-guiding tool (Gaze-Guiding group) or without support (Practice-refresher intervention group or Control group). The participants of the Practice-refresher intervention group repeated the initially learned skill in week 2. The results show that gaze guiding supports the precise execution of a task and is a promising technical tool for cued recall and retrieval support. Relevance to industryRefresher interventions are popular methods for skill retention. A resource-saving alternative is an adaptive computer-based job aid which supports the operator's skill retrieval in the recall situation. It is a further development of step-by-step guidance with computer-based procedures and appears only when the operator fails to remember the task operation.