Dr. Jungmin Han published an article entitled “Exploring User’s Preference on the Color of Cavity and Lighting of an Oven Product” in Archives of Design Research(AoDR), and also took part in the AoDR’s 130th journal cover design. The study investigated user’s preference on the interplay of lighting and oven interior color. Through a series of…

Dr. Kyungah Choi published an article entitled “Awakening effects of blue-enriched morning light exposure on university students’ physiological and subjective responses” in the journal Scientific Reports, a multidisciplinary journal from the publishers of Nature. This study was conducted in collaboration with the research team of Prof. Hyun Jung Chung from the Graduate School of Nanoscience…

Dr. Jungmin Han published an article entitled as, “Do users perceive the same image differently? Comparison of OLED and LCD in mobile HMDs and smartphones” in the Journal of Information Display. The study examined which panel the consumers prefer in the smartphone and HMD context by investigating the characteristics of panels as perceived by the…

Kyeong Ah Jeong published an article entitled as, “Exploring Users’ Desired Emotion in Product Light Focusing on the Refrigerator[제품 조명에 기대하는 소구 감성 탐색: 냉장고 사례를 중심으로]” in the Korean Journal of Society for Emotion and Sensibility[감성과학]. The study investigated the type of desired emotion on refrigerator lighting by applying mixed method and thereby suggesting…

Collaborating with Samsung Electronics, Color lab has investigated the optimal white observers consider as the true white when viewing TV displays. The research question was raised in the Master dissertation of Dr.Kyungah Choi(supervisor: Prof.Suk), and Dr.Choi began with smartphones and tablet PCs. Expanding the research scope, Dr.Choi has led the empirical study to confirm whether the previous…

Prof.Suk published an article entitled as. “Applying Social Strategies for Breakdown Situations of Conversational Agents: A Case Study Using Forewarning and Apology [대화형 에이전트의 오류 상황에서 사회적 전략 적용: 사전 양해와 사과를 이용한 사례 연구]” in the Korean Journal for Science of Emotion and Sensibility. The study documents Prof. Yoomi Lee and Miss Sunjeong Park’s term…

Dr.Na, a graduate of Color Lab. has published an article entitled as, “Smartphone use at night affects melatonin secretion, body temperature, and heart rate” in the Korean Journal of Society for Emotion and Sensibility[감성과학]. In the article, a change of display quality of a smartphone, such as a decrease of both luminance and blue ratio…

Taesu Kim and Kyungah Choi published an article entitled, “Beverage Taste Perception Influenced by Its Turbidity: Results from Twenties and Thirties [탁도에 따른 음료의 미각 인지: 20, 30대 소비자를 중심으로]” in the Korean Journal of the Science of Emotion & Sensibility. The study investigated the cross-modal correspondence between the turbidity and taste of beverages and…

EunJin Kim, the Ph.D. candidate of Color lab. published an article entitled “Image color adjustment for harmony with a target color” in Color Research & Application. Based on the insights from designers, the study developed an image color adjustment algorithm to achieve harmony between an image and a target color. The algorithm adjusts hue of…

A summary of Hyunjoo’s mater thesis is published in the Archives of Design Research (AoDR). In the article, she investigated and demonstrated that material reconfiguration could be facilitated as an easy but effective way of visually exploring design alternatives. Besides interesting implications are included, for example, how many material alternatives designers usually try until they confirm the…

Kyungah Choi, a Ph.D. candidate at Color Lab recently published an article entitled “Assessment of white for displays under dark- and chromatic-adapted conditions” in the journal Optics Express, a top-ranked journal in the optics field. This study aims to derive an empirical model to predict the degree of whiteness as a function of position in…