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arxiv: 2605.16677 · v1 · pith:3IN3XHG6new · submitted 2026-05-15 · 💻 cs.HC

Navigating Transitions: Envisioning Conversational User Interfaces to Support International Students

Yuhui Xu , Isabel Blijenburg , Bhakti Moghe , Maarten Houben , Daniel Tetteroo , Wijnand IJsselsteijn , Minha Lee This is my paper

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The pith

Participatory workshops show international students envisioning conversational interfaces to address uncertainty, loneliness, and cultural misunderstandings during study abroad.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper examines how conversational user interfaces might help international students manage the difficulties of adapting to a new country, where they face elevated risks of mental health challenges compared to local students. Through participatory design workshops, participants described their struggles and suggested specific CUI features aimed at practical guidance, social connection, and cultural navigation. This approach matters because it grounds design ideas directly in the lived experiences of the target users rather than assumptions from researchers alone. If the findings hold, they suggest a route to create accessible digital tools that could integrate into university support systems and improve daily well-being for this population.

Core claim

International students who took part in participatory design workshops shared their perspectives on studying abroad and proposed concrete features for conversational user interfaces to support their transitions. These features focus on reducing uncertainty about daily practical matters, alleviating loneliness, and handling misunderstandings tied to cultural differences. The work derives design implications from these proposals to guide future CUI development for student well-being.

What carries the argument

Participatory design workshops in which international students directly envision and propose features for conversational user interfaces to ease their adjustment challenges.

If this is right

  • CUIs could deliver timely, on-demand assistance with navigating unfamiliar systems and daily logistics to lower uncertainty.
  • Built-in social matching or conversation prompts might reduce isolation by helping students form connections.
  • Responses attuned to cultural contexts could decrease miscommunications and increase confidence in interactions.
  • The identified needs point to a practical set of priorities for building supportive chat tools within university settings.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same workshop format could be used to explore CUI support for other groups undergoing major transitions, such as new professionals or recent immigrants.
  • Building and testing simple prototypes of the suggested features with users would provide direct feedback on which ideas prove most helpful in practice.
  • Universities could pilot these interfaces alongside existing counseling or orientation programs to measure real-world effects on student adjustment.

Load-bearing premise

The needs and feature ideas expressed by the small group of workshop participants reflect those of international students more broadly.

What would settle it

A larger-scale study repeating the workshops with a wider and more varied group of international students that yields substantially different needs or rejects the proposed features would show the current design implications do not hold up.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.16677 by Bhakti Moghe, Daniel Tetteroo, Isabel Blijenburg, Maarten Houben, Minha Lee, Wijnand IJsselsteijn, Yuhui Xu.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: A collection of photos and collages made by participants in the workshops. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: YY’s illustration represented his taxi trip to the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: XZ used this image and emoticon stickers as a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: DM’s sketch of a chatbot that provides several men [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

International students face struggles when adapting to the host country. They are more susceptible to mental health problems than domestic students. While Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) are increasingly researched and implemented, research on how they may help international university students is still scarce. Thus, we conducted participatory design workshops with international students who shared their perspectives and struggles of studying abroad, in which they also envisioned CUIs as aids to support their transitions. Participants proposed features of a CUI to address uncertainty, loneliness, and misunderstandings of cultural differences. Our paper reveals international students' needs and provides design implications for CUIs to support their well-being.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript reports results from participatory design workshops in which international students discussed adaptation challenges (uncertainty, loneliness, cultural misunderstandings) and envisioned CUI features to address them. From these sessions the authors extract student needs and derive design implications for CUIs intended to support international students' well-being during transition to the host country.

Significance. If the workshop findings prove robust, the work fills a documented gap in HCI research on CUIs for a high-risk population. The design implications could usefully inform development of culturally sensitive, supportive conversational agents in educational settings, linking qualitative user insights to concrete interface recommendations.

major comments (2)
  1. [Methods] Methods section: the description of the participatory design workshops supplies neither participant count, recruitment method, demographic spread (home countries, years in host country), nor the analysis procedure (e.g., thematic analysis steps or saturation criterion). Because the central claim—that the proposed features and design implications are useful for the broader population—rests directly on these workshop outputs, the absence of this information prevents evaluation of transferability.
  2. [Discussion] Discussion / Design Implications section: the leap from the specific workshop proposals to population-level design implications is not accompanied by explicit discussion of limitations or boundary conditions. Without such qualification the claim that the features address 'international students' needs' in general remains under-supported.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: participant numbers and a brief statement of analysis approach are missing; adding one sentence would allow readers to gauge scope immediately.
  2. [Appendix] Figure captions or workshop protocol appendix: if visual materials or session scripts exist, they should be referenced so readers can understand the exact prompts given to participants.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and have revised the manuscript to improve clarity and rigor.

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  1. Referee: [Methods] Methods section: the description of the participatory design workshops supplies neither participant count, recruitment method, demographic spread (home countries, years in host country), nor the analysis procedure (e.g., thematic analysis steps or saturation criterion). Because the central claim—that the proposed features and design implications are useful for the broader population—rests directly on these workshop outputs, the absence of this information prevents evaluation of transferability.

    Authors: We agree that the original Methods section omitted key details required to assess transferability. In the revised manuscript we have expanded this section to report the participant count, recruitment approach (via university international offices and targeted social media), demographic characteristics (home countries and time in host country), and the full analysis procedure, including the thematic analysis steps and criterion for saturation. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Discussion] Discussion / Design Implications section: the leap from the specific workshop proposals to population-level design implications is not accompanied by explicit discussion of limitations or boundary conditions. Without such qualification the claim that the features address 'international students' needs' in general remains under-supported.

    Authors: We accept this criticism. The revised Discussion now contains an explicit subsection on limitations and boundary conditions. It qualifies the scope of the findings, notes the exploratory character of the workshops, and reframes the design implications as context-sensitive suggestions rather than general claims applicable to all international students. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in qualitative participatory design study

full rationale

The paper conducts participatory design workshops with international students to elicit struggles and envisioned CUI features addressing uncertainty, loneliness, and cultural misunderstandings, then derives design implications directly from those participant outputs. This is a standard qualitative reporting chain with no equations, fitted parameters, self-definitional loops, or load-bearing self-citations that reduce claims to their own inputs by construction. The central claims rest on thematic synthesis of workshop data rather than any imported uniqueness theorems or ansatzes, making the derivation self-contained against external benchmarks of qualitative HCI research.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The claim depends on the assumption that participatory workshops reliably surface authentic user needs and that those needs can be translated into actionable CUI design guidance without further empirical testing.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Participatory design workshops with a modest number of international students can generate representative insights into the needs of the broader population.
    Invoked when the authors move from workshop outputs to general design implications for CUIs.

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