• Hyunjoo is now a master of science in design

    Hyunjoo Bee received her master degree with a dissertation entitled, “Material Reconfiguration for Visual Exploration and Product Design Alternatives [재질 재배치에 기반한 제품 디자인 대안의 시각적 탐색]”. The study began with a simple but novel research question, “what about rearranging the materials before confirming the design?” Surprisingly, she found out that many of us are…

  • 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…

  • Hyunjoo’s material reconfiguration study is now in AoDR

    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…

  • 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…

  • Assessment of white for displays by Kyungah

    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…

  • Kyungah’s article has been highlighted by the Optics Express

    Kyungah’s article published in Optics Express is listed in the “Top Downloads” from October 2016. Because the article and related media coverage were released in April 2016, this confirms her research has obtained significant attention for the last 7 months. The article is entitled as “Dynamic lighting system for the learning environment: performance of elementary students” and…

  • Prof.Suk wrote a book chapter about “Light, enlightening colors”

    A public talk about color of Prof.Suk is published in a book chapter edited by the KAOS Foundation [카오스재단]. The book entitled, “Lecture Science KAOS 03 Light [렉처 사이언스 KAOS 03 빛]” is a collection of 10 talks broadcasted through the YTN Science in 2015. The 10 chapters cover theories and issues related to light, and 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…

  • How a key color creates an attractive promotional video, investigated by EunJin

    EunJin Kim, a Ph.D. candidate of Color lab, has presented her recent work entitled, “Key Color Generation for Affective Multimedia Production: An Initial Method and Its Application” at 2016 ACM Multimedia Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In the paper, the insights from designers’ color selection process were discussed and utilized to develop a key color generation…