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Color and Vision Science Lab (Shoji Sunaga)
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A lab exploring design that takes the diversity of color appearance into account.
AboutAbout the lab
Putting color vision diversity to work in design.
Professor Shoji Sunaga's lab studies information processing in human vision, especially color vision, and applies that knowledge to design.
It is known that the mechanisms by which people perceive color differ from person to person, and that not everyone necessarily sees the same colors.
Based on this color vision diversity, the lab studies color scheme methods that keep information conveyed by color intact regardless of differences in color vision, as well as educational programs for learning about differences in how colors appear.
Key terms
- Color vision diversity
- The view that the mechanisms by which people perceive color differ from person to person, and that not everyone necessarily sees the same colors
- Color Universal Design
- A color design method that takes the diversity of color vision into account and keeps information conveyed by color intact regardless of differences in color vision
- Dichromacy
- A type of color vision in which there are combinations of colors that cannot be told apart (confusion colors). It serves as a starting point when considering color schemes
ResearchResearch themes
How humans see color differs from person to person, so design that conveys information through differences in color does not necessarily reach everyone equally. The lab investigates human visual mechanisms, centering on color vision, and applies that knowledge to the design of color scheme methods and educational programs.
*Illustrative imageColor schemes starting from dichromacy
Color Universal Design is a color design method that avoids color combinations that people with dichromacy cannot distinguish. The lab studies methods that begin a color scheme from how colors look to people with dichromacy, and also develops applications for putting them into practice.
*Illustrative imageEducation on color vision diversity
The lab is working on the design of a color vision diversity education program for elementary school students. Because there is concern that learning about color in arts and crafts and art classes may create difficulties for students with "color vision deficiency", the lab investigates the issues through methods such as surveys of teachers.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorShoji Sunaga
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Skin Swatches ( )” natasha / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Color schemes starting from dichromacy: “Bundstifte colored-pencils ( )” Anka Albrecht / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Education on color vision diversity: “Biologists Karen Sinclair and Lara Drizd assisting children color their paper cut-outs of monarch butterflies. ( )” Pacific Southwest Region USFWS from Sacramento, US / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Color and Vision Science Lab): “Color-palette-dynamic-color” Vijay Verma / CC0 (cropped)
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