because life is colorful.
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Welcome to Color lab!
Boram joined the Color lab in Fall 2020. She is a chemical engineer with professional experience at Samsung Electro-Mechanics for three years. During her undergraduate education at KAIST, she attended the essential design courses from ID to major it as her minor. She is highly motivated to learn and practice color research activities, which color…
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Juhee became a Master of Science. Congrats!
Juhee Kim received her Master degree from KAIST, and the thesis is entitled, ” Prediction of the Emotions and Preference for Movie Poster Designs based on Graphical Features: A Machine Learning-driven Approach [영화 포스터 디자인에 대한 감정 및 선호도 예측: 그래픽 요소 기반 머신러닝 활용을 중심으로]”, the part of that was published in the Archives…
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2019 Best 10 Research of KAIST
The color lab’s research on the effect of blue-enriched awakening light in the morning was selected as one of the Best 10 Research Cases of KAIST in 2019. It has been almost 10 years since that color lab has investigated the effect of nuanced white lighting on the human’s physiological and psychological responses. Luckily enough,…
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Shirts under 8000 K appear nicer?
Juhee’s survey result about optimal matches between light and fabric colors is now in Color Research & Application. Entitled, “Affective matches of fabric and lighting chromaticity“, the study includes two main experiments. One is about the effect of lighting hue on the surface styles of fabric. The other one is concerned with a wider spectrum…
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Blue-enriched white light in the schedule by Dr.Choi
Color lab has published a research article entitled, “The gradual transition from blue-enriched to neutral white light for creating a supportive learning environment” in Building and Environment. Led by Dr.Kyungah Choi, Color lab has investigated the awakening effect of blue-enriched light for recent years and has emphasized the relevance of UX for the lighting control…
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The first machine learning study applied to design practice by Juhee
Juhee Kim, the master student of Color Lab has published an article entitled, “Prediction of the Emotion Responses to Poster Designs based on Graphical Features: A Machine learning-driven Approach” in Archives of Design Research. As a part of her master thesis, the article adopted computational algorithm modeling of machine learning to predict people’s emotional judgment…
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Like in ZOOM, what if many faces in diverse lightings enter into one scene? Color issues investigated by Yuchun
Yuchun published an article entitled “Affective Effect of Multi-source Portraits Under Various Illuminants on One Scene” in the Journal of Imaging Science and Technology (JIST). This study intends to identify the affective effect of our viewing multiple portraits whose white balance is not aligned. Through both quantitative evaluation and qualitative writing tasks, the study revealed that a…
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Color lab in Scientific Reports Top 100 Collection
Our recent publication about awakening light in Scientific Reports is listed in the “Top 100 in Neuroscience” collection. This collection highlights the most downloaded neuroscience papers published in 2019. The article is entitled “Awakening effects of blue-enriched morning light exposure on university students’ physiological and subjective responses”, and Dr.Kyungah Choi is the first author. The…
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Design of LUX Cards by Kyungah and Taesu
Dr. Kyungah Choi and Taesu Kim published an article entitled “Lighting User Experience (LUX) Cards: A Card-based Tool for the Design of Smart Lighting Solutions” in the journal Archives of Design Research. The paper introduces the design and evaluation of the Lighting User Experience (LUX) Cards created to support idea generation among designers involved in…
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Hyeonju joined us
Color lab welcomes a new member, Hyeonju Park. Hyeonju received a Bachelor of Science from the industrial design of KAIST in 2020. During the undergraduate program, she experienced diverse areas of design practice. Besides, she has been actively participating in extra curriculum activities, such as IoT product design, fintech system design, conversational agent design and…
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Winter internship at Color lab
During the winter break, three undergraduate students joined the color lab as internship students. Each participated in different projects and research activities. Color lab appreciates their efforts and achievements, hoping to work together on the next opportunity. The individual interviews were made and summarized in the following: “I explored the emotional response to kinetic in-car…
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Kyeong Ah is Dr.Jeong!
After having conducted a number of light design projects with industry for four years, she finally and successfully documented the “herstory” in a Ph.D. dissertation. Entitled as, “A prototyping tool in designing light of product [제품의 빛을 디자인하기 위한 도구 개발 및 활용]”, the dissertation includes not only the scientific information but also practical know-how…
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