Episode 182: Human Factors: Designing Systems with People in Mind – Part 1 of 2
Dr. Cynthia Null, NASA Technical Fellow for Human Factors, discusses how understanding human capabilities and limitations can help engineers reduce risk and design safer, more successful missions from the start. The post Episode 182: Human Factors: Designing Systems with People in Mind – Part 1 of 2 appeared first on NASA Science .
Dr. Cynthia Null is the NASA Technical Fellow for Human Factors at NASA's Engineering and Safety Center. She discussed the importance of human factors, a scientific discipline that focuses on how people interact with systems they design, build, and operate. Human factors helps enhance mission safety, efficiency, and success by understanding human cognition systems and how they have evolved. It can be applied to various missions, including human spaceflight, aeronautics, science missions, and technology developments.
Human factors experts study human capabilities and interactions with other elements of the system. They develop requirements, tools, processes, and procedures to ensure humans are successful within the system. Dr. Null emphasized the importance of considering human factors early in mission development, as it can help avoid miscommunication between the team and the humans performing the mission, leading to better risk mitigation and mission success.
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