The keyboard that swaps out toxic phrases for positive messages during gameplay.
There are 70 million online gamers and over 200,000 cybercafes across Indonesia. Unfortunately, the place where gamers find entertainment has also become a hotbed for cyberbullying. Research shows that bullying in online gaming contributed to 70.5% of cyberbullying in the country and the guys from E-Sports Channel found an interesting way to help fight cyber-bully using an interesting method.
How do they do it? They reprogrammed QMK keyboards to swap toxic phrases typed out by bullies for sweet and encouraging messages for their fellow online gamers. Using first-party data, they identified and extracted toxic phrases commonly used by bullies. They then reprogrammed the processor of the Quantum Mechanical keyboards and synced the toxic phrases to the keyboard through QMK firmware.
On 3 Oct 2022, World Day of Bullying Prevention, the Anti-Hate Keyboards were given out to cybercafes across several cities in Jakarta. When bullies unleashed abusive attacks, their toxic phrases were swapped for sweet messages in the chatroom.
Here are some examples of what they've swapped out:
We will support any act of anti-cyber-bully. It's ridiculously....good! that we've people from everywhere who are trying to do something to help the gaming community. If you're interested to have this Anti-Hate Keyboard for your own or your organisation, they have also made the firmware an open source for everyone. Companies or the public can visit their website www.antihatekeyboard.com and download the firmware to fight cyberbullying for the betterment of society.
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