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Master’s Exam Success!
We are delighted to announce that Stella (스텔라) and Giyun (기윤) have successfully passed their Master’s exams! Their innovative research projects address two critical challenges—one in online beauty reviews, and the other in digital color display under dark mode. Stella’s (스텔라 욜란다) thesis introduces a novel method to summarize customer review content in the ever-growing…
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Congrats! Minjung is finally a Master of Science!
Minjung has successfully completed her Master’s degree after two years of hard work. Her thesis, titled “Designing Facial Expression Guidelines for Avatar-Mediated Communication [아바타 매개 의사소통을 위한 표정 디자인 가이드라인],” is the result of her dedicated efforts. Throughout her research, Minjung delved into various aspects, starting with an exploration of the current landscape of avatars’…
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Congrats to Dr. Taesu Kim!
In 2023, Taesu Kim earned his Ph.D. His dissertation, “Methods and Practices of Affective Ambient Light Design in Cars,” introduced innovative approaches for integrating emotionally impactful ambient lighting in vehicle interiors. His work, rooted in user-centered design, offered practical guidance for designers. During his Ph.D., he collaborated with major automotive light companies like Hyundai, SL,…
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Kyeong Ah is Dr.Jeong!
After having conducted a number of light design projects with industry for four years, she finally and successfully documented the “herstory” in a Ph.D. dissertation. Entitled as, “A prototyping tool in designing light of product [제품의 빛을 디자인하기 위한 도구 개발 및 활용]”, the dissertation includes not only the scientific information but also practical know-how…
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Minsun is a Master of Science!
Minsun Hong received a master of science with a thesis entitled, “Affective Image Quality for Sports Content”. Some practical insights regarding image quality on displays have led to this academic research begun. First, sports content is on live-broadcasting and there is a tendency to skip a detailed color correction process, even though the shooting is…
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Yuchun, a Master of Science!
Yuchun Yan is now a master of science! She submitted the thesis, entitled “Skin Balancing: Chromatic Adjustment of Multi-illuminant Portraits on One Scene using Facial Color to Reproduce Standard Image Quality”. She investigated the special situation when multiple portraits undue different scene illuminants gathered together and how people perceive the color difference in terms of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Sung-Wook has finished his master thesis
Sungwook submitted his master thesis entitled, “The Influence of Atypical Color on Aesthetics of Product Design” in that he identified the value and impact of unusual color on consumers’ impression. He has investigate the aesthetic appeal or cognitive association when color of an object or graphical elements, such as graphic user interface(GUI) is atypical. For…
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Dr.Na, the first Ph.D. from Color Lab!
Congratulations! Nooree Na received her Ph.D. degree. She earned her doctorate after three years of hard work. During her Ph.D. course, she has published at least 6 articles in SCI(E) journals and 12 full papers at internationally renowned counferences. Her achievements are indeed record-breaking in Department of Industrial Design, KAIST. As of March 2016, she starts her first…
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Congrats! Kyeongah, a Master of Science now!
Kyeong Ah Jeong is now a master of science! She submitted the thesis, entitled “Making Video Playback and its Emotional Effect”, and an online-based service tool, “JockeyTime” is now launched at jockeytime.kaist.ac.kr. As of March 2016, she continues her research on the affective effect of playback design of moving images as a Ph.D. candidate. Master thesis…