• 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…

  • An invited talk of Prof. Suk by the Optical Society of Korea(OSK)

    Prof. Suk delivered a talk invited by the Optical Society of Korea(OSK) to the special session, ‘color science’, for the optical science community. She introduced the affective effect of color particularly focusing on how people emotionally respond to the color properties. In the session, two more speakers were invited: Dr. Jisoo Hwang from the KRISS…

  • To Watch or Not To Watch? VR in HMD or in Smartphone

    Dr. Jungmin Han and Prof. Suk presented a work entitled, “Comparison of Visual Discomfort and Visual Fatigue between Head-Mounted Display and Smartphone” at the IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI 2017) in Burlingame, California. The study provides evidence that HMD causes more dry eye symptoms compared to smartphones. In the study, clinical data are…

  • Central facial region for finding real skin color by Kyungah

    Kyungah Choi delivered a poster presentation entitled, “The human sclera and pupil as the calibration targets” at the IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI 2017) in Burlingame, California. The study examined the human sclera and the pupil as calibration targets for digital images to estimate human skin. Based on this assumption, a new color…

  • Central facial region for finding real skin color by Kyungah

    Kyungah Choi presented a work entitled, “Skin-representative region in a face for finding real skin color” at the IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI 2017) in Burlingame, California. The study suggests an algorithm for finding one’s skin region based on the primary calculation of the center region of the face for accurate detection and reduced…

  • Performance of the skin-colored patches for skin color estimation by Kyungah

    Kyungah Choi presented a work entitled, “Performance of the 14 skin-colored patches in accurately estimating human skin color” at the IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI 2017) in Burlingame, California. The study provides evidence that the skin-colored patches support more accurate estimations of skin colors than the 24 colored patches. It is expected that the…

  • Material reconfiguration by Hyunjoo

    Hyunjoo Bae, a master candidate of Color lab, presented her recent work entitled, “The value and application of material reconfiguration of product design.” at KSDS (Korea Society of Design Science) 2016 international conference in Busan, Korea. The study provides evidence that material reconfiguration has a sufficiently impactful influence on on novelty, aesthetic preference, and overall preference…

  • How a key color creates an attractive promotional video, investigated by EunJin

    EunJin Kim, a Ph.D. candidate of Color lab, has presented her recent work entitled, “Key Color Generation for Affective Multimedia Production: An Initial Method and Its Application” at 2016 ACM Multimedia Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In the paper, the insights from designers’ color selection process were discussed and utilized to develop a key color generation…

  • Jockey Time, an onlline video editing service by Kyeong Ah

    Kyeong Ah Jeong, a Ph.D. candidate of Color Lab presented a poster about her master study entitled, “Jockey Time: Making Video Playback to Enhance Emotional Effect” at the ACM Multimedia Conference for 2016 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This study devised a web-based online video playback editing service that enhancing the emotional effect of one’s video.…

  • Enlarged words make text messages look clearer but less premium, by Do-hyeong and EunJin.

    Do-hyeong Kim, Suhong Ju and EunJin Kim presented their work entitled, “The effects of enlarged words in text messages: Look clearer, but less premium: at the 10th International Conference on Design & Emotion in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The study explored the emotional characteristics of enlarged words in text messages. The results showed that enlarging the…

  • Yo! Kinetic typography in single-button messengers by Minhwan and Kyungah

    Minhwan Kim and Kyungah Choi presented their work entitled, “Yo!: Enriching Emotional Quality of Single-Button Messengers through Kinetic Typography” at the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2016) in Brisbane, Australia. The study explored the influence of adding kinetic typography onto the single-button messenger to enrich the communicational aspects by conducting a series…