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Cynthia Null

NASA Technical Fellow for Human Factors at the NASA Engineering and Safety Center, based at NASA Ames Research Center.

Sep 30, 2026

Small Steps, Giant Leaps

Small Steps, Giant Leaps

Human Factors: Designing Systems with People in Mind - Part 2 of 2

Sep 30 · 21m

Andres Almeida
Andres AlmeidaHOST
4:02
Utility?
Cynthia NullGUEST
4:03
Yes, utility.
Cynthia NullGUEST
4:04
And it organizes things so that they're valuable to you.
Cynthia NullGUEST
4:09
It also has essentially what's been called two systems.
Cynthia NullGUEST
4:12
One is the very system that runs in the background.
Cynthia NullGUEST
4:15
Kahneman and Tversky called it system one.
Cynthia NullGUEST
4:17
System one is not something you can access consciously.

5 MINS LATER

Andres Almeida
Andres AlmeidaHOST
9:49
Yeah, avoid predators.

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