Flex Co., Ltd. (CEO Soon-il Yoon), an edutech venture company, announced on the 14th that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on industry-academia cooperation with Yonsei University’s Psychological Science Innovation Research Institute (Director Sang-hoon Han) on ‘joint research on infant and toddler psychological analysis’.
The main contents of this memorandum of understanding include ▲ psychological analysis of infants and young children ▲ the importance of healing symptoms of psychological anxiety, etc., which both organizations agreed to recognize and resolve together through industry-academia cooperation.
Sunil Yoon, CEO of Flex, said, “Currently, we are conducting artificial intelligence analysis of psychology and emotions from video and picture data, focusing on infant psychological test sheets,” and added, “Through this industry-academia collaboration, we plan to expand into an infant mental healthcare service that can manage children’s stress in real time.” “He said.
Sang-Hoon Han, Director of the Psychological Science Innovation Research Center at Yonsei University, said, “It will be educationally valuable research through convergent collaboration between basic research results in psychological science and ICT companies.” “We hope that this can serve as a foundation for securing the competitiveness of mental healthcare.”
Meanwhile, FLAX is a childcare company for the Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center’s ‘K-Champ Challenge (KB Unicorn Club)’ and recently hosted the 5th ‘K-Champ Challenge (KB Unicorn Club)’ hosted by the Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center, Gyeonggi Small and Medium Venture Business Administration, Suwon University, and Gyeonggi Job Foundation. Startup 815’s ICT field and jump-up category achieved success.
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom
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