projects, which are the development of a human rights mobile application
(mobile app), the development of a human rights animation piece, as well as
the development of a robot as a human rights activist, all of which involved
technical assistance from students of the SIT of MUM who had been selected as
team members for the projects. Each project is outlined as follows:
(a) Human Rights Mobile App
(b) Animation
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The human rights mobile app entitled ‘Fair and Square’ is an Androidbased application that contains three educational games centered on
three themes: Fairness, Discrimination, and Bullying. Each of the themes has
a different type of game, and the end of each game, there will be moral
messages displayed to the player.
The animation piece entitled “The Success Story of a Student with Disabilities
in Sport” was developed based on one of the stories in a human rights
comic book published by the Commission in 2015.
(c)
NAO Robot Activist
The NAO Robot Activist project uses the NAO Robot developed by Aldebaran
Robotics as an interactive medium of communication to promote the
Commission and the CRC. The NAO Robot has been programmed with the
speaking function and is able to conduct simple quizzes with its audience.
These human rights digital tools were officially launched on 8 December in
conjunction with International Human Rights Day. The launch of the human
rights digital tools marked an important milestone in the Commission’s effort
to promote human rights through technological innovation. One tangible
outcome derived from the partnership with Monash University Malaysia
was the increased knowledge and awareness of human rights among the
students who were involved in developing the human rights digital tools.
This is in line with the one of the principal aims of the project, which was to
promote human rights at the heart of the students’ learning experience.
The Commission envisages that these digital tools, which have been
made free and available in the public domain, will help to enhance the
understanding of various potential users, particularly children as well as
teachers and parents, about the core principles embedded in the CRC,
through an alternative approach to the classroom or other conventional
means.
As these digital tools are still relatively new, the Commission will intensify its
effort to promote wider use of these tools among all potential users through
social media platforms and its future outreach and education programmes.
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