• 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…

  • 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…