Notes:
The Nadia project has so far cost more than $3.5 million but key landmarks have been missed and insiders fear it has been sidelined by the Government….
- Nadia AI
- National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)
- New World Conference: Disability in the 21st Century – Brisbane (October 27, 2015)
Resources:
- australian chatbot community .. 100+ member private facebook group
- centre-for-digital-business.com .. “co-creator” of nadia, marie helen johnson in canberra
Wikipedia:
See also:
100 Best Hugo de Garis Videos | 100 Best MyCyberTwin Videos | Australia Chatbot News Timeline | Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) | Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA) | Mike Seymour (Meet Mike) | MyCyberTwin Citations | MyCyberTwin News Timeline | Orlan, Stelarc & Virtual Reality | Stelarc Articulated Head | Stelarc Prosthetic Head | Stelarc Thinking Head | Thinking Head Project
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- Becoming “Nadia”: The Story of the Creation of “Nadia” by People with Disability (14 Mar 2020)
- Digital humans with star’s voice such as Cate Blanchett could answer your healthcare questions (15 Nov 2019)
- Nadia: the curious case of the digital missing person (03 Apr 2019)
- Government agrees that Australia’s NDIS needs a chatbot (07 Mar 2019)
- NDIS’ great bot hope Nadia takes more time off for stress leave (10 Dec 2018)
- APS centre of excellence to develop the next generation of robot public servants (28 Nov 2018)
- NDIS consultants cost Government almost $30m in two years (25 Sep 2017)
- NDIA denies Cate Blanchett-voiced ‘Nadia’ virtual assistant is in doubt (22 Sep 2017)
- The Turnbull government just dumped the NDIS virtual assistant voiced by Cate Blanchett (22 Sep 2017)
- NDIS’ virtual assistant Nadia, voiced by Cate Blanchett, stalls after recent census, robo-debt bungles (21 Sep 2017)
- NDIS participants could use the Nadia bot to shop (12 Jul 2017)
- National Disability Agency looks outside Watson for Nadia AI bot (01 Jun 2017)
- Fight over numbers blowout puts NDIS deal under pressure (01 Apr, 2017)
- The first chatbot [Nadia] understands human emotions (27 Mar 2017)
- Meet Nadia, the scarily ‘human’ chatbot who can read your emotions (25 Mar 2017)
- Cate Blanchett is the voice behind a new virtual assistant for an Australian government agency (23 Feb 2017)
- NDIA recruits Cate Blanchett to voice new avatar (22 Feb 2017)
- Cate Blanchett Voices ‘Game Changing’ NDIS Avatar (20 Feb 2017)
- Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett lends voice to NDIS avatar (16 Feb 2017)
- Disability system to tap IBM’s Watson (14 Oct 2015)
- New thinking required for national disability technology (25 Jun 2015)