• 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…

  • Taste and turbidity by Taesu and Kyungah

    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…

  • 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…

  • How to adjust an image to achieve harmony with a color, investigated by EunJin

    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…