A paper of graduate students Howon Son, and Dami Choe and professor Hyeon-Jeong Suk received the Best Paper Award at the Spring Conference of the Korean Society of Emotion and Sensibility held on the 22th and 23th of May 2009. Their study was entitled 'Influence of background color on perceiving facial expression' created as a research project for Professor Suk's class 'Theory of Emotional Design'.