• A search for an optimal white point of television presented at AIC2017

    Taesu Kim, an undergraduate intern of Color Lab for the last two months presented a poster entitled, “Optimal White Point of Television Under Varying Illuminants” on the AIC 2017 held in Jeju. The study investigated the optimal white point of QLED TV under varying illuminants. In this study, he conducted a visual examination of whiteness…

  • Minsun’s study on color in syntax highlighting at AIC2017

    Minsun Hong, a master student of Color Lab presented a poster entitled, “Color in Syntax Highlighting on Programmers’ Readability Assessment” on the AIC 2017 held in Jeju. In this study, she investigated the effect of color in programming language on readability. The study examined the influence of three color related attributes of text reading context,…

  • Facial skin color variability in Korean women by Dr.Choi

    Dr. Kyungah Choi delivered a poster presentation entitled, “Facial skin color variability in Korean women” at the 13th AIC Congress of International Colour Association (AIC 2017) in Jeju, Republic of Korea. The study collected standard quantified data on the skin colors of Korean women using a spectrophotometer and thereby investigated facial color variability. The study…

  • Invited lecture at AIC2017

    The AIC2017 event was eventually held on Jeju Island. AIC is the world’s largest international color conference with over 50 years of history. It is held every year as an interim meeting and held every 4 years as a congress. It was the first time in Korea that the Congress was held in Jeju Island…

  • Congratulations to Kyungah Choi on receiving a Ph.D. degree!

    Kyungah Choi completed her Ph.D. in Industrial Design with the dissertation entitled “Dynamic Lighting for a Better Learning Environment.” For her doctoral dissertation, she investigated how dynamic lighting could be employed to support students’ academic achievement and how, deployed effectively in learning environments, such illumination can minimize students’ health risks. Especially, a part of this…

  • Taste and turbidity by Taesu and Kyungah

    Taesu Kim and Kyungah Choi published an article entitled, “Beverage Taste Perception Influenced by Its Turbidity: Results from Twenties and Thirties [탁도에 따른 음료의 미각 인지: 20, 30대 소비자를 중심으로]” in the Korean Journal of the Science of Emotion & Sensibility. The study investigated the cross-modal correspondence between the turbidity and taste of beverages and…

  • Thoughts and Tools for Crafting Colors proposed by EunJin at DIS’ 17

    EunJin presented her work at the ACM DIS’ 17 conference and the full paper is published in the proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. In the paper, the heuristic findings and qualitative analyses are provided based on the thorough observation of designers’ selecting and articulating colors to be matched with the given images. As…

  • Taesu won an award in 2017 Spring DSUS

    Taesu Kim won an award from a domestic design conference. Taesu is an undergraduate intern of Color Lab and presented about his undergraduate research program(URP) on the 2017 Spring DSUS(Design Seminar on University Students) held in Seoul, Korea. In presentation, he proposed package design toolkit “t.package” through a thorough investigation of the gustative experience taste affected…

  • About the flipped learning, invited by Korea Aerospace University

    Kyungah Choi and Prof. Suk were invited to a special talk about the flipped learning by Korea Aerospace University [한국항공대학교]. In the seminar, professor shared her teaching experiences describing the course flow, class contents, and some know-hows. Then Kyungah followed the talk and introduced the roles and duties of the teaching assistant(TA) of the flipped…

  • An invited lecture on affective light to KBS academy

    Prof. Suk gave a three-hour lecture at KBS academy [KBS 인재개발원] about the affective effect of light. Under the title of “feeling of light [빛을 느끼다]”, the lecture consisted of two parts: psychophysics of light and aesthetics of light. The audience was from mainly engineering domain related with stage light or camera.

  • How to adjust an image to achieve harmony with a color, investigated by EunJin

    EunJin Kim, the Ph.D. candidate of Color lab. published an article entitled “Image color adjustment for harmony with a target color” in Color Research & Application. Based on the insights from designers, the study developed an image color adjustment algorithm to achieve harmony between an image and a target color. The algorithm adjusts hue of…

  • Hyunjoo is now a master of science in design

    Hyunjoo Bee received her master degree with a dissertation entitled, “Material Reconfiguration for Visual Exploration and Product Design Alternatives [재질 재배치에 기반한 제품 디자인 대안의 시각적 탐색]”. The study began with a simple but novel research question, “what about rearranging the materials before confirming the design?” Surprisingly, she found out that many of us are…