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Expectations and Reality: The Lived Experiences of Australians With Psychosocial Disability Within the NDIS

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was founded on principles of choice and control, for people with significant mental health challenges (what the NDIS calls ‘psychosocial disability’) these ideals often remain elusive. Support systems continue to be fractured and in the context of ongoing policy reforms, it is vital
Joel Hollier, Jennifer Smith‐Merry
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers and Enablers for Effective Support Coordination in the National Disability Insurance Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Support coordinators act as intermediaries between the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and participants, facilitating access to funded supports. To optimise outcomes, they must navigate NDIS complexities, identify services that meet individual needs and engage with diverse stakeholders.
Sharyn McDonald, Lee Cubis, Di Winkler, Jacinta Douglas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conversational presentation mode increases credibility judgements during information search with ChatGPT

Scientific Reports
People increasingly use large language model (LLM)-based conversational agents to obtain information. However, the information these models provide is not always factually accurate.
Christine Anderl, Stefanie H. Klein, Büsra Sarigül, Frank M. Schneider, Junyi Han, Paul L. Fiedler, Sonja Utz   +6 more
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Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings, Art Cotterell, Farzana Bruce   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Compiling Dynamic Agent Conversations [PDF]

, 2002
We consider defining executable dialogues for communicating agents. Towards this end, we introduce agent classes whose communication primitives are based on deduction. Their operational semantics are given by an abstract logical machine that is defined purely in sequential terms.
openaire   +3 more sources

Has Inequity Faced by Young Australians With Disability Changed Since the Turn of the Century?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the introduction of various policies aimed at promoting equality for people with disability since Australia ratified the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008, there has been little evaluation regarding the extent of change in inequity since then.
Asha Parkinson, Joanne Arciuli, Eric Emerson, Sally Robinson, Sally Chance, Gerry Redmond   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effectiveness of AI-based conversational and socially assistive agents in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMC Geriatrics
Background Depression and loneliness are highly prevalent among older adults, yet access to timely and adequate mental health care remains limited in this population. Artificial intelligence–based conversational and socially assistive agents have emerged
Wenling Gou, Florian Lefebvre, Tongping Yang, Robin Recours, Jing Yang   +4 more
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Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, Yating Hu, Benjamin Adams, Sarah Bergen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting Aged Care Worker Wellbeing: A Qualitative Document Analysis of the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aged care work is physically and emotionally demanding. Workers can feel disempowered, vulnerable and at increased risk of experiencing work‐related stress. This in turn can result in sub‐optimal care and staff shortages. This study aimed to investigate what provisions exist within Australia's strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards to ...
Sharon Stoddart, Kate Churruca, Maree Saba, Janet C Long, Peter D. Hibbert, Amy Nguyen, Viviana Wuthrich, Bronwyn Newman, Leonard C. Gray, Hilda Bø Lyng, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Louise A Ellis   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adolescents’ Experience with a Conversational Agent for Depression

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Conversational Agents have been showing promise for depression in adults in the short-term. Although, there has been little research done for conversational agents (CAs) with depression in adolescents.
Alanna Testerman, Arjun Roshik Bharat, Tyrique Patterson, Eduardo Bunge   +3 more
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