• Yuchun revealed the truth. The darkening effect is no more the rumor

    Yuchun revealed the truth. The darkening effect is no more the rumor

    Yuchun, the Ph.D. candidate of Color lab has published a research article, entitled “Measuring and describing the discoloration of the liquid foundation”, in Color Research & Application (doi.org/10.1002/col.22584). The article reports the phenomena of discoloration of liquid foundation spread over time through repeated measures along 24 hours. Indeed the discoloration occurred and in particular, all…

  • Selected as a Featured Cover of Color Research & Application Vol.45, issue 6

    Selected as a Featured Cover of Color Research & Application Vol.45, issue 6

    Juhee’s article about the effect of light chromaticity on the fabric style has been nominated and selected as a featured cover of the Color Research & Application, 45(6) : https://doi.org/10.1002/col.22537. Congratulations!

  • Dr.Jeong’s article about the optimal light uniformity in a refrigerator

    Dr.Jeong’s article about the optimal light uniformity in a refrigerator

    Dr.Jeong’s research article on optimal uniformity is published in Color Research and Application. During her Ph.D. program, she has participated in a series of projects with LG electronics regarding the design quality of cavity lighting, and the refrigerator was the first product she was in full responsibility for the experiments. As a part of the…

  • Shirts under 8000 K appear nicer?

    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…

  • Blue-enriched white light in the schedule by Dr.Choi

    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…

  • The first machine learning study applied to design practice by Juhee

    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…

  • Like in ZOOM, what if many faces in diverse lightings enter into one scene? Color issues investigated by Yuchun

    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…

  • Color lab in Scientific Reports Top 100 Collection

    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…

  • Design of LUX Cards by Kyungah and Taesu

    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…

  • Color lab on Scientific Reports YouTube channel!

    Dr.Choi’s article in Scientific Reports entitled “Awakening effects of blue-enriched morning light exposure on university students’ physiological and subjective responses” has been selected as a highlight article by the journal and selected for marketing campaigns. A video abstract was produced and uploaded to the Scientific Reports YouTube channel. An interview with Dr. Kyungah Choi was also…

  • A collaborative color study with chemists

    Indeed, color drives an interdisciplinary collaboration. With Prof. Dr. Jongin Hong of the Department of Chemistry,  Chung-Ang University, color lab jointly published a research article entitled as, “Blue-colored dyes featuring a diketopyrrolopyrrole spacer for translucent dye-sensitized solar cells” in Dyes and Pigments. Dr. Kyungah Choi and Prof. Suk contributed to the study with contents about colorific understanding…

  • How to design a more eco-friendly take-out coffee cup

    Yuchun and Prof. Suk published an article entitled as “Design Attributes for a More Eco-friendly Takeout Cup Using Conjoint Analysis” published in Archvies of Design Research 32(2). The study empirically examined the impact of eco-friendly impression while altering the combinations of design attributes of take-out coffee cups. The result shows that the lid is essential especially…