Accessible, but Not Adopted: Increasing LLM Adoption among First-generation, Low-income (FGLI) College Students beyond Expanding Access
3.40T1 sourcearXiv cs.HC
Source record
Published by arXiv cs.HC (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36129.
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SummaryStudy based on 61 interviews examines why first-generation, low-income college students adopt LLMs at only surface level, using chatbots for narrow tasks. Identifies five barriers to deeper engagement and proposes four design principles and a four-mode depth gradient of LLM tool use.
Why it mattersConcrete qualitative evidence on adoption friction beyond access, and a useful depth gradient for thinking about how agentic tools actually get used rather than merely tried.
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