• True white for televisions by Dr. Choi

    Dr. Kyungah Choi presented a work entitled, “White perception of display devices in dark and lit environments” at the Asia-Design Engineering Workshop (ADEWS 2017). This study aims to investigate the white perception of display devices presented in a real rather than a simulated environment, lit by illuminants with various chromaticities. The results of this study…

  • Kyeong Ah’s master thesis won the best paper award

    Kyeong Ah Jeong’s journal article is awarded the 2017 Best Paper Award from the Journal of Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility [감성과학]. The award-winning paper is entitled, “Affective Effect of Video Playback Style and its Assessment Tool Development [영상의 재생 스타일에 따른 감성적 효과와 감성 평가 도구의 개발]” and was published in 2016. The…

  • Eunjin’s final presentation about her dissertation

    Eunjin presented her doctoral dissertation entitled as, “Image-Color Harmony: Key Color Generation and Image Recoloring.” She attempted an interdisciplinary approach to synergize the technique of computational imaging and theory of color harmony toward a proposal of practical solutions. For example, when a corporate color is given, her algorithm retouches some colors within an image, so that…

  • A keynote speech at CIE2017

    Prof. Suk delivered a keynote speech at CIE2017, Jeju. She talked about users’ experience of colored lighting in daily lives that focused how we could enrich our every day lives through nuanced lighting. The CIE stands for the International Commission on Illumination – also known as the CIE from its French title, the Commission Internationale…

  • A tool for generating lighting ideas in real-time proposed by Kyeong Ah

    Kyeong Ah Jeong attended CIE 2017’s workshop session to make an oral presentation entitled, “c.light: a tool for generating lighting ideas in real-time”. She proposed a new light prototyping tool that enables designers to materialize both tangible and intangible aspects of lighting concepts. Through multiple workshops with graduate-level designers and professionals, we have found that…

  • Adaptive illumination of the refrigerators by Kyeong Ah

    Kyeong Ah Jeong made a poster presentation entitled, “Adaptive Illumination for the Home Appliances: A Case Study of Refrigerator” at the 13th AIC Congress of International Colour Association (AIC 2017) in Jeju, Republic of Korea. The study examined the relationship between indoor and ambient illumination of a refrigerator. The study has shown that there should…

  • A Light Palette, a new color wheel interface of lighting by Kyeong Ah

    Kyeong Ah Jeong delivered a poster presentation entitled, “A Light Palette: Color Exploration on Equal Luminance” at the 13th AIC Congress of International Colour Association (AIC 2017) in Jeju, Republic of Korea. The study proposed a new wireless color wheel interface that allows the user to obtain the luminance information and maintain the luminance of…

  • 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…

  • Congratulations to Kyungah Choi on receiving a Ph.D. degree!

    Kyungah Choi completed her Ph.D. in Industrial Design with the dissertation entitled “Dynamic Lighting for a Better Learning Environment.” For her doctoral dissertation, she investigated how dynamic lighting could be employed to support students’ academic achievement and how, deployed effectively in learning environments, such illumination can minimize students’ health risks. Especially, a part of this…