Dr. Kitirochna Rattanakasamsuk Research It is an important agenda to accommodate elderly people in the aging society. Our research theme is to study elderly vision and apply color effectively and creatively to support elderly people’s daily life. The research also focuses on standardization of visual environment, color coding, product design and user interface to improve visual performance of visually impaired (e.g. color defective) people. Keywords: color universal design, color barrier-free, elderly vision, standardization

Recent papers published: *Rattanakasamsuk, K. and Shinoda, H.: Partial exclusion of the local effect from the assessment of recognized illuminant using depth separation” Opt. Rev 13 (2006) 380-387. *Rattanakasamsuk,     K., and Shinoda, H.: Partial exclusion of the local effect from the assessment of recognized illuminant using depth separation II: Influence of depth separation under the chromatic illumination” Opt. Rev. 14 (2007) 319-324.

Article/Paper published

Year 2016
Boundary of acceptable blue color in Thai traffic sign for elderly.
N.Keawpilab and K. Rattanakasamsuk.
Proceedings of ACA2016 The 3rd International Conference of Asia Color Association, China; pp. 205-208 (2016)

Year 2015
Effect of Color Appeared in Signage to Identify Gender of Thai
Saksirikosol. C., Rattanakasamsuk, K. and Srisuro, P.
Proceeding of AIC2015 Midterm Meeting of International Color Association. Japan pp. 457-461

Luminance Contrast of Thai Letters Influencing Elderly Vision
Rattanakasamsuk, K.
Proceeding of AIC2015 Midterm Meeting of International Color Association. Japan pp. 824-829

Year 2014
Assessment of Lens Sharpness and Depth of Field Based on Psychophysical Method.
SaksiriKosol C., Rattanakasamsuk K., and Dolkit P.
Proceeding of ACA2014 Asia Color Association Proceeding. Taipei (2014) 192-195

Year 2013
Elderly Vision on legibility of Thai Letters presented on led panel
Rattanakasamsuk, K.
Proceeding of ACA2013 the 1st Asia Color Association Proceeding pp 70-73(11-14 December 2013 Pathumthani, Thaiiland)

Year 2012
Comparison of color preference in different color appearance mode between Thai and Japanese people
Rattanakasamsuk, K., Tangkijviwat U., and Shinoda, H.
Proceeding of AIC 2012 Interim Meeting of the International Colour Association Proceeding, Taipei, Taiwan pp. 554-557 (2012).