Projects

Color lab has contributed its academic knowledge to design practice and creative engineering:

Amore Pacific

  • Digital Beauty Center (2023: 36 months)
  • AI-driven Personal Color Diagnosis System (2022: 6 months)
  • AP Lip Color DB and System and AR application (2022: 6 months)
  • AP Hair Color DB and System and AR application (2021: 10 months)
  • Asian Faces and Shades (2020: 6 months)
  • AP Face Makeup & Lip Color DB Advancement and UX Proposal (2019: 6 months)
  • AP Face Makeup Color DB Establishment and System Proposal (2018: 3 months)

LG Electronics

  • Lighting Design Strategies and Guidelines for LG H&A (2023: 36 months)
  • Lighting Design and Guideline for LG special cabinet (2022: 12 months)
  • Lighting Guidelines and Designs for LG Stylers (2019: 9 months)
  • Lighting Design Index for Oven and Microwaves (2018: 10 months)
  • Lighting Room (2017: 2 months)
  • Development of Light Design Index for Home Appliances (2017: 9 months)
  • The Beauty of WHITEs (2011: 6 months)
  • Timeless Top Class UX- Color Strategy (2010: 6 months)

Hyundai & KIA Motors

  • User-centered affective lighting design for the commercial vehicles: methods and guidelines (2022: 12 months)
  • Active lighting: design method and implementation (2021: 9 months)
  • Emotional lighting for autonomous driving (2020: 9 months)
  • Affective response to in-car mood lighting (2019: 6 months)
  • Trend analysis and design proposals for In-bus lighting (2018: 11 months)
  • Form and lighting for the vehicle interior design (2016: 7 months)

Cosmax BTI

  • Global face color: Big data and the AI-driven analysis  (2022: 6 months)
  • AI-driven facial color analysis: China 2021 (2021: 3 months)
  • Global shade color system: method and strategy (2020: 3 months)
  • DB and application of affective quantity of color cosmetics (2018: 12 months)

TAEJAE Foundation (Formerly Hanssem Foundation)

  • Hanssem-KAIST Future Smart Home Research Center (2021: 36 months: Step 1)

Coway

  • Lighting design guide for clean home appliances (2020: 12 months)

Samsung Display

  • The ophthalmological user study about HMD (2019: 12 months)
  • User experience design for foldable smartphone (2018: 3 months), PI by Dr. Kyungah Choi
  • AMOLED, the best display for HMD: validation and strategic approaches (2016: 8 months)
  • Design human factors of curved displays (2014: 8 months)

LG Electronics

  • Lighting Guidelines and Designs for LG Stylers (2019: 9 months)
  • Lighting Design Index for Oven and Microwaves (2018: 10 months)
  • Lighting Room (2017: 2 months)
  • Development of Light Design Index for Home Appliances (2017: 9 months)
  • The Beauty of WHITEs (2011: 6 months)
  • Timeless Top Class UX- Color Strategy (2010: 6 months)

National Research Foundation of Korea

  • The user-centered UX design to operate a sustainable lighting system for the better learning (2018: 36 months)
  • A visual environment system for Smart Classroom through the optimal scenarios among lighting, VDTs, and learning styles (2015: 36 months)
  • DB development of affective reactions to LEDs and applications for future products (2010: 24 months)
  • Consumers’ color psychology of recycled material and its application for color design of environmentally sustainable products (2009: 12 months)
  • A Research proposal for the development of programs and strategies for the education and promotion of women in science and engineering in the Daejeon area (2008: 6 months)

Samsung Electronics

  • Smart lighting control for AI-driven desk lamp (2018: 3 months), PI by Dr. Kyungah Choi
  • Perceptual factors of video quality in various TV viewing conditions (2018: 5 months)
  • Strategy of Color reproduction for TV display Customized for Illuminant and Genre (2017: 5 months)
  • Novel calibration targets (2016: 6 months)
  • Color Design Guidelines (2016: 4 months)
  • Designing the AD contents for digital signage displays. (2014: 6 months)
  • Strategical development in the presentation of display color and illuminance for improving readability of smartphone contents and stimulating effects of color therapy (2013: 10 months)
  • Scenario Development for Smartphone Color Displays Based on Users’ Context (2012: 3 months)

HDC iControls

  • User-centered Smart Home System for the Next Generation I- Smart Light (2018: 6 months)

SL Corporation

  • Car interior lighting: Scenarios and empirical studies (2018: 8 months)

KAIST Institute

  • Carcass Disposal System for Animal Experiments (2016: 9 months)

Estee Lauder, USA

  • Capturing Skin Color through Illuminant Estimation in Images that Contain Faces (2016: 5 months)

Ottogi

  • Research Grant for the Book Publication of Koreans’ Colors, Tastes, and Styles (2013: 12 months)

Korea Photonics Technology Institute

  • User-Centered LED Lighting System Development Enabling Daylight Spectrum for Educational/Residential Facilities (2011: 34 months)

Korea Food Research Institute

  • A proposal of creative food color based on the affective effect (2011: 24 months)

Halla Climate Control

  • Designing an affective LED interface of climate control system for the passenger car (2010: 6 months)

LG Healthcare and Life Science

  • The affective effect of the LED odor products (2010: 6 months)
  • Color measurement of the LED tooth-lightening product (2010: 3 months)
  • User test about the LED skin care product (2010: 3 months)

Nokia, Finland

  • Korea Trend Research (2010: 6 months)
  • Only Planet- South Korea (2009: 12 months)

Korea Railroad Research Institute

  • Identity design for a railroad consortium (2009: 3 months)
  • Color study for localization of TAV train in Brazil (2007: 6 months)