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Flex is a mental care company established in November 2019 by a group of educational experts and psychological analysts with over 10 years of experience in education. It is comprised of veterans who worked at an education company and oversaw edutech, including digital learning and smart learning, for children of various ages, from infants to elementary , middle , and high school students.
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We operate a mental care service that analyzes and determines psychological conditions based on emotional data through artificial intelligence, and possesses systematic and detailed core technologies for ▲patterning of emotional expressions, ▲early diagnosis of psychological anxiety symptoms, and ▲continuity of counseling.
In ‘Emotional Expression Patterning’, psychological analysis is linked through facial expressions, voices, words, and behavioral patterns that are revealed when expressing an individual’s unique emotions.
‘Early diagnosis of psychological anxiety symptoms’ is a solution that detects emotional anxiety symptoms according to patterns of emotional expression. Based on the individual’s emotional habit patterns, early diagnosis and prevention are possible by inferring the cause of the occurrence from the initial point when psychological anxiety symptoms are discovered and for the period they last, or when previously cured psychological anxiety symptoms recur.
‘Continuity of counseling’ means that face-to-face/non-face-to-face counseling continues so that if a psychologist retires or is transferred to another region, there is no need to start the counseling process with a new psychologist. Psychological counseling can be linked based on existing accumulated psychological analysis data.
Through this, users can receive an early diagnosis of psychological anxiety symptoms and prevent recurrence through continuous observation. In addition, objective psychological analysis becomes possible through highly reliable analysis.
Sunil Yoon, CEO of Flex, said, “In order to solve problems such as the difficulty of filling out test forms during child psychological counseling centers and online psychological tests, and the shyness of meeting a psychologist, we will naturally expose the process of emotional behavior expressed in daily life to artificial intelligence and then analyze it. “We have developed a platform that can help children develop the right thinking and habits,” he said. “By providing mental care services where correct thinking and habits can be formed, we aim to establish a mental health management environment that can continuously observe and heal children’s emotional anxiety at home.” “I did it,” he explained the background of the research.
Accordingly, Flex launched the Android application ‘Kids Diary’. For preschool children who are suspected of having symptoms of emotional anxiety but are immature in Korean reading comprehension and emotional expression, data related to emotional expression among the data collected from daily life behavior and speech are processed and their psychological state is analyzed through AI data.
Depending on the topic the character friend asks (eliciting a psychological response), the character sends a diary reply (animation) through AI psychological analysis of the emotional data (facial expressions, voices, words) expressed unconsciously while the child writes a diary through video recording. It is carried out in the form of providing psychological counseling and parenting (counseling) services.
CEO Yoon said, “We simultaneously developed and released an app for children and an app for parents for more detailed analysis and solutions,” adding, “We have more than 150,000 pieces of emotional data including videos, facial expressions, voices, and emotional words. “We will attempt to discover various business models through additional processing,” he said.
He continued, “Pangyo is a place with an optimized foundation for business growth through the latest technology trends and networks. “We have also received a lot of help through the partnership between startups to complement the startups’ insufficient technological capabilities,” he said. “We have entered the global market using Korea as a stepping stone and are currently conducting pilot projects in Washington DC, the United States, the Philippines, and Finland. “We hope that through the platform we have developed, children will grow up brightly and healthily.”
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom
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