• The color tolerance of vehicular instrument panels presented at EI 2022

    The color tolerance of vehicular instrument panels presented at EI 2022

    Taesu made a presentation entitled “A method proposal for evaluating color tolerance in viewing multiple white points focusing on the vehicle instrument panels” at Human Vision and Electronic Imaging 2022. The study proposed a method with an analysis protocol for evaluating the color and illuminance uniformity in the vehicle. It addresses the relevance of color…

  • Taesu’s machine learning article won the best paper award

    Taesu’s machine learning article won the best paper award

    Taesu’s article received the best paper award from the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility. The article is entitled, “Hi, KIA! Classifying Emotional States from Wake-up Words Using Machine Learning [Hi, KIA! 기계 학습을 이용한 기동어 기반 감성 분류]” published in April 2021(see the paper). He introduced the dataset and machine learning model that extract…

  • Byeonjin won the best paper presentation. Congrats!

    Byeonjin won the best paper presentation. Congrats!

    Byeongjin received the best paper presentation award from the 2021 Fall Conference of Korea Society of Color Studies. The award-winning article was entitled, “Optimal Luminance for Television Viewing in the Dark Room[어두운 환경에서 TV 시청 시의 적정 휘도 탐색]”, which investigated users’ visual comfort when watching the television in a dark. Taesu participated in the…

  • Taesu won Robert W G Hunt Poster Awards from AIC 2021

    Taesu won Robert W G Hunt Poster Awards from AIC 2021

    Taesu Kim received the Robert W G Hunt Poster Award from AIC 2021, held in Milan. Taesu is a Ph.D. student in the Color lab and made a poster presentation entitled “EEG responses to in-car dynamic cluster light” at AIC 2021. The study investigated the drivers’ effect on cluster indirect lighting under a combination of…

  • Comfortable Brightness for Watching Television in the Dark by Byeongjin at AIC2021

    Comfortable Brightness for Watching Television in the Dark by Byeongjin at AIC2021

    Byeongjin made an oral presentation entitled, “Comfortable Brightness for Watching Television in the Dark” on AIC 2021. In his study, he investigated the appropriate brightness of the display when users watching them in the dark. For this study, he conducted the experiment for the cognitive evaluation using six video stimuli with different levels of brightness…

  • Is blue still a representative for future vehicles by Gyunpyo at AIC2021

    Is blue still a representative for future vehicles by Gyunpyo at AIC2021

    At the 14th AIC Congress 2021 held in Milan, Italy, Gyunpyo Lee delivered an oral presentation entitled “Is Blue Still a representative for Future Vehicles?”. The study shows how the marketing norm for eco-consciousness represents color for future vehicles, encompassing both battery electric vehicles and hydrogen-powered electric vehicles. Furthermore, the study revealed that heritage brands…

  • Minjung(민정) joins Color Lab!

    Minjung(민정) joins Color Lab!

    Color lab welcomes a new member, Minjung Park. She recently received a Bachelor of Science from the industrial design of KAIST. Additionally, she minored in Business Technology Management. She participated in a series of design projects including OTT design, service platform, subscription manage service, fintech system and more.  Currently, her research interest includes users’ emotional…

  • Dr.Yan, the first international Ph.D. from Color Lab

    Dr.Yan, the first international Ph.D. from Color Lab

    Yuchun Yan completed her Ph.D. in Industrial Design with the dissertation entitled as “Digital Transformation for Color Cosmetics: from Products to Services” [색조화장품의 디지털 전환: 제품부터 서비스까지], which emphasized the role of design research in satisfying the needs of digital transformation concerning color cosmetics as a specific example. The dissertation includes not only scientific research…

  • Congrats! Qinyue and Aigerim are Masters of Science!

    Congrats! Qinyue and Aigerim are Masters of Science!

    Qinyue and Aigerim received their Master’s degrees after two years of hard-working. Their theses are entitled, “Bubble Coloring to Visualize Speech Emotion in Voice Messaging [음성 메시지의 감성 시각화를 위한 말풍선 색채 적용]” and “Product style assessment in various interiors using Virtual Reality”. In Qinyue’s thesis, she proposed the concept of visualizing the emotion in…

  • Taesu’s investigation about drivers’ emotional responses to in-car light

    Taesu’s investigation about drivers’ emotional responses to in-car light

    Taesu KIM, a Ph.D. candidate of Color Lab has published an article entitled, “EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TO IN-CAR DYNAMIC LIGHTING” in volume 22, the 4th issue of International Journal of Automotive Technology. In the study, cluster lightings were designed by combining five colors and five dynamic patterns, and the emotional responses were assessed. The empirical evidence…

  • Qinyue’s “Bubble Coloring” at CHI 2021

    Qinyue’s “Bubble Coloring” at CHI 2021

    Qinyue presented an extended abstract entitled, “Bubble Coloring to Visualize the Speech Emotion” at CHI 2021 virtual conference, and Yuchun has co-authored the paper. As a part of Qinyue’s master thesis, the study explored the emotional effect of the chat bubble’s background color on voice messages. The empirical result demonstrated that the bubble color intensified…

  • Prof.Suk received the Lee Soo-Young Award

    Prof.Suk received the Lee Soo-Young Award

    As a recipient of the 2021 Lee Soo-Young’s Award for Innovative Education, Professor Suk delivered a speech about Education 4.0Q initiated by the KAIST Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching(CELT). Since 2012, she has participated in active learning programs, including the Coursera MOOC. She shared her experiences and thoughts about paradigm leading university education…