• 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Kyungah’s article has been highlighted by the Optics Express

    Kyungah’s article published in Optics Express is listed in the “Top Downloads” from October 2016. Because the article and related media coverage were released in April 2016, this confirms her research has obtained significant attention for the last 7 months. The article is entitled as “Dynamic lighting system for the learning environment: performance of elementary students” and…

  • Two new members of Color Lab.

    Color Lab has welcomed two new members, Minsun Hong and Yuchun Yan for the Master’s program. Minsun has a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from KAIST and Yuchun finished her Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design at the University of Liverpool (UK) and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (P.R.China). Their contributions will be deeply appreciated in the immediate…

  • Sung-Wook has finished his master thesis

    Sungwook submitted his master thesis entitled, “The Influence of Atypical Color on Aesthetics of Product Design” in that he identified the value and impact of unusual color on consumers’ impression. He has investigate the aesthetic appeal or cognitive association when color of an object or graphical elements, such as graphic user interface(GUI) is atypical. For…

  • Kyungah’s study in press release worldwide!

    The recent research in Color Lab was reported in the press. The study entitled “Dynamic lighting system for the learning environment: performance of elementary student” published in the journal Optics Express, was introduced with the interviews with Prof. Hyeon-Jeong Suk and Kyungah Choi. In the study, we found that lighting can be optimized for many…

  • Best poster presentation award to Taesoo at KOSES Spring conference

    Taesoo Kim, a junior student of industrial design at KAIST, presented a poster about his recent individual research project(advisor : Prof.Hyeon-Jeong Suk) entitled, “Effects on how turbidity of drinks influence recognizing sense of taste by visual [탁도가 음료의 미각적 특징을 시각적으로 인지하는데 미치는 영향]” on the 2016 Spring Conference of Korea Society for Emotion and…

  • Now at KOOC: KAIST Open Online Course

    One of the Prof.Suk’s courses, “Light, Life, and Color [빛, 생명, 그리고 색채]” is now open to everybody. As of this April, KAIST offers online courses called, “KOOC(KAIST Online Open Course)” that is open to anyone who subscribe at http://kooc.kaist.ac.kr. As one of the five courses, her “Light, Life, and Color” is included in the first launch. The course will run for…