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Hyeonju reported about the excessive light from home appliances

As an invited talk to the 17th China International Forum on Solid-State Lighting (SSL China 2020) held in Shenzhen, China, Hyeonju delivered a video presentation entitled “Thoughts and Approaches toward the Guideline of Light Interface of Home Appliances”. The study introduced three approaches: a review of domestic legal guidance concerning outdoor light pollution, a consumer…

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Is “Hi… Kia…” sufficient to express sad mood? Yes. Deep learning driven investigation by Youngwoo and Taesu

Youngwoo Kim, an undergraduate intern has presented a paper entitled, “Hi, Kia, HI… Kia…, HI, KIA!” at the 2020 Fall Conference of Korea Society for Emotion and Sensibility. This study investigated the affective quality from the Wake-Up Words(WUW) in a passenger car. Having collaborated with Kia Design Center, Color lab has carried out a series…

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Skin color perception in portrait and emoji by Yuchun Yan at CIC28

Yuchun Yan, a Ph.D. student of Color lab made an interactive and poster presentation entitled “Skin Color Perception in Portrait Image and AR-based Humanoid Emoji.” A user study was conducted with 20 graduate students majoring in design, and 24 portrait images in four skin tone categories were employed. Through the user study, we observed skin colors…

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Lighting design for the Premium bus by Taesu

Taesu Kim, a Ph.D. student of Color lab, delivered an online presentation entitled as, “Bus Interior Lighting Design Using Detachable Ceiling Light Module” at the 2020 Fall International Conference of Korea Society of Design Studies(KSDS). This study introduced the use of scale mockups to prototype the lighting design quickly but much more realistic than drawings…

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Reverse Calibration to Guess the Original Illuminant Presented by Taesu at CIC27

Taesu Kim, a Ph.D. student of color lab, gave an oral presentation entitled as, “Illuminant Estimation Through Reverse Calibration of an Auto White-Balanced Image That Contains Displays” at CIC27 in Paris. He proposed reverse algorithm to estimate original illuminants from automatically calibrated digital images. In particular, he used the color of smartphone display as a calibration…

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Lighting Style and Emotion by Kyeong Ah at CIC27

Kyeong Ah Jeong, a Ph.D. student of color lab made an interactive and poster presentation, entitled as “Subjective Judgments of Refrigerator Lighting by Altering Chromaticity and Placement across Age Groups” at CIC27, Paris, France. She investigated an optimal chromaticity and placement of refrigerator lighting to meet users’ preference. Eighteen lighting stimuli were provided by combining…

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Juhee Kim presented her recent study, entitled as “Layout Preference for Korean Movie Posters: Contextual Background or Character Dominance”, at IASDR2019, Manchester, UK. The study empirically examined the impact of movie poster attributes when the audience chooses a movie. The result shows that the preference of young generation is aligned with designers’ graphic tastes. The…

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Color lab organized the workshop entitled, “Human-Centric Lighting Design for Vehicles” at the International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference (IASDR 2019), on September 4, 2019. Led by Kyeong Ah Jeong and Dr. Kyungah Choi, the workshop invited international participants. In the workshop, participants acquired essential knowledge on lighting design considerations and experienced the process of…

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