International students in emerging adulthood face unique challenges as they navigate life transitions and adapt to new environments. These challenges significantly affect their mental well-being. While previous HRI studies have explored robotic solutions to address anxiety through therapeutic guidance, positive psychology, and mood recognition, little is known about design features tailored to the challenges of transition. By deploying co-design probes with 18 international students experiencing mild symptoms of anxiety and depression, we investigate their lived experiences and coping strategies and translate these insights into design implications for social robots. Our findings indicate that participants envisioned robots that create a welcoming living environment through seamless design and provide a sense of agency through achievable tasks. These features were seen as particularly helpful in relieving day-to-day tension in effortless ways. Based on these findings, we discuss how social robots can better support transitions in emerging adulthood.

Farming plays a significant role in the economy by supporting related industries such as food, retail, and local services. Community-based small farms, while offering unique social and cultural benefits, face persistent challenges, including limited access to formal education and underdeveloped infrastructure, which have been discussed in prior research. This study focuses on community-driven factors, such as workarounds for recording critical information and practices for passing down farming knowledge across generations. Through 11 semi-structured interviews with farmers from a small ethnic community, the Hmong, we explore how bonding social capital, rooted in close family and community ties, supports informal knowledge exchange and creates pathways to bridging and linking capital. These relationships help farmers connect to broader networks, resources, and institutions. Our findings highlight opportunities for designing technologies that support and strengthen existing support systems. We discuss how technologies should be designed to reflect the cultural values, unique practices, and intergenerational relationships embedded in community-based farms.