Traditionally, body dissatisfaction interventions have been designed with a focus on females from Western cultures. However, with growing research indicating that body dissatisfaction is experienced across society, regardless of gender and cultural background, it is increasingly important that future interventions incorporate a broader range of socio-cultural experiences. We conducted a two-phase co-design study with thirteen participants (seven females, six males), aged 18-24, from diverse cultural backgrounds. Phase 1 aimed to understand the influencing factors that frame the development of body image perceptions. Drawing on insights from Phase 1, Phase 2, then explicitly focused on gathering design insights for digital tools for body dissatisfaction interventions. Four narrative design concepts were used to provoke discussions and ideate around potential digital interventions. Through this paper, we contribute unique insights into the experiences and digital intervention preferences of underrepresented people in body image research and highlight future directions to create more inclusive digital interventions.

Mental health issues affect approximately 13% of people aged 10-24 years old worldwide. In Western countries (e.g. USA, UK, Australia), mental health issues are particularly prominent in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) individuals, yet they are disproportionately affected in relation to service provision. Despite demand, there is a significant lack of literature explicitly exploring the design of digital mental health tools for CALD populations. Our study engaged five professionals working in CALD mental health, to gain insights into challenges for service access and provision, and then engaged 41 CALD young people to explore their experiences. We contribute a set of unique insights into the barriers that CALD young people face when seeking help, and their needs for future digital mental health tools. We also provide design recommendations for future researchers on how they might better support the inclusion of CALD communities in the design of digital health tools.

Multiple HCI projects have demonstrated the potential of digitally-enhanced, synchronous telephony platforms for use with and by resource-limited communities. However, these platforms were each designed to only facilitate a single archetype of community engagement, limiting their capacity for adaptation when contextual or stakeholder requirements change. This paper builds upon these projects to introduce a design vocabulary, grounded in a formal ontology describing the core components necessary to run adaptable, structured engagements through synchronous group telephony. Through a series of scenarios, we present how this design vocabulary can be used to: help design and communicate different models of synchronous audio engagements, describe existing technologies, and highlight other novel ways in which such platforms could be used. We discuss how while under-explored to this point, synchronous telephony platforms can be designed to orchestrate stakeholder engagements with a degree of flexibility previously impossible in remote, offline contexts.