Hanyang University’s Digital Healthcare Center and MIT Media Lab Sign MOU to Jointly Develop Proposals for Research Collaborations
Hanyang University’s Digital Healthcare Center and MIT Media Lab Sign MOU on Research Collaborations
A signing ceremony was held at the MIT Media Lab, attended by Media Lab Director Dava Newman, Hanyang University Professor Hyungsook Kim, Media Lab Professor Rosalind Picard, Hanyang University Kyungsik Han, and UNIST Young-Woo Park.
Professor Dava Newman, the Director of the MIT Media Lab, is a prominent aerospace engineer and former NASA Deputy Administrator. She is renowned for her research in advanced space suit design as well as her contributions to human spaceflight and exploration.
Professor Rosalind Picard, who leads the Affective Computing research group at MIT Media Lab, is the founder of the field of Affective Computing. She and her research team explore technologies and wearable devices that recognize and respond to human emotional expression.
Professor Hyungsook Kim, directs the Digital Healthcare Center at Hanyang University. She focuses on developing digital healthcare technologies and educational content, as well as improving mental health care and wellness through innovative digital solutions.
“We envision collaborative exploration that brings together the innovative Affective Computing research underway at the MIT Media Lab with Hanyang Digital Healthcare Center, which has mental health app services and real-world data developed in Korea,” said Professor Rosalind Picard.
“We will start discussing research today, and will look to develop a collaborative model for success,” said Professor Hyungsook Kim. “We will also endeavor to share our vision for global research in the field of digital mental wellness.”
About Hanyang University’s Digital Healthcare Center
The HY Digital Healthcare Center (HY-DHC) is an affiliated research institute of the University of Seoul, established on 1 September 2020 (revised regulations) to conduct research related to digital therapeutics and its applications. It aims to promote interdisciplinary research based on engineering, behavioral science, neuroscience, clinical, and artificial intelligence, and to build digital therapeutics datasets and provide service technology for digital therapeutics.
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