Pay participant advisers to choose a useful task and define what control means.
500 Queens / NDIS Aura Development
NDIS Aura Development
Co-design an Aura support tool around a disabled person's chosen task and control.
Follow the connections. Choose your direction.
The need worth working on.
An AI assistant can sound helpful while making assumptions about what a disabled person needs. A useful concept begins with the person's own goals, communication preferences and right to choose support. It should remove a practical burden without becoming another system they must explain themselves to.
What the enterprise could offer.
Develop a non-clinical, participant-led assistant prototype for one everyday task such as organising a chosen activity or preparing questions for a service meeting. Use fictional information first and make a human support option available in the design. The title does not imply NDIS approval, funding or a provider relationship.
People to build with
- Disabled adults who choose to help design a tool
- Support organisations investigating a specific administrative barrier
- Developers learning participant-led accessibility practice
One task chosen by the participant
Build a simple prototype with the communication formats they request.
Test using fictional records before considering personal information.
Make correction, refusal, deletion and a non-AI route easy to use.
Ask participants whether the tool reduced effort and respected their choices.
The first result
An accessible prototype, participant-reviewed findings and a clear statement of its limits.
What needs to be demonstrated.
Practical pilot
The starting evidence
A limited accessibility prototype can be co-designed and evaluated. It is not a clinical service or confirmed funded support.
The open question
No participant arrangement, provider, funding pathway, live AI system or evaluated benefit is established.
The next measurement
Compare the participant-defined effort and independence involved in the selected task.
Build the means to deliver.
Useful capabilities and resources
- Paid disabled co-designers
- An accessibility specialist and developer
- Appropriate human support and accessible testing formats
A possible business model
Commissioned accessibility design or a clearly scoped tool service, with payment arrangements explored without assuming entitlement.
A leadership decision to practise
Give disabled participants authority over the problem and success criteria, including the decision that AI is not useful for the task.
People, consequences and decisions.
- A persona can appear more capable than the service behind it.
- Supporters may speak over the person's own preferences.
- An automated suggestion can create extra administrative work.
If equality were being designed now...
- Can disabled women direct the design and retain control over their information?
- Is a human or non-digital option equally available?
Begin with women's own experiences across bodies, ages, cultures and places. Invite disagreement and choose a practical change together.
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From the original suggestion to a working brief.
Developed from original enterprise 118 in the 500 Queens VC NEW Long presentation (slide 18) and the planning document (page 8). This expanded brief is a proposed development path, not evidence of an operating venture or a confirmed partner.
Original title: NDIS Aura Development. The pilot, business model and learning connections on this page are proposed developments of that original idea.