Research
Funded Research
LANL funds continuing research
Dr. Young Ho Park, mechanical engineering, received an increase in funding from Los Alamos National Laboratory for $19,000 to continue his research to study the effect of leaded gloves versus unleaded gloves on task performance. Park will make the best decision on the basis of incomplete information available from dexterity test data using statistical analysis techniques. Inevitably, uncertainties arise when researchers have only a sample taken from the population about which inferences are to be made. Thus, probability is important in the statistical decision making. Researchers use inferential statistics to investigate the probability required for the decision making process.
Another objective is to conduct a physical ergonomics study by considering physical characteristics of the glovebox operators such as anthropometry and its relationships to posture.