  While diversity has become a debated issue in design, very little research
exists on positive use-cases for diversity beyond scholarly criticism. The
current work addresses this gap through the case of a diversity-aware chatbot,
exploring what benefits a diversity-aware chatbot could bring to people and how
do people interpret diversity when being presented with it. In this paper, we
motivate a Q&A chatbot as a technology probe and deploy it in two student
communities within a study. During the study, we collected contextual data on
people's expectations and perceptions when presented with diversity during the
study. Our key findings show that people seek out others with shared niche
interests, or their search is driven by exploration and inspiration when
presented with diversity. Although interacting with chatbots is limited,
participants found the engagement novel and interesting to motivate future
research.
