An important problem for technology design is predicting users and uses for emerging technologies—doing usercentered design for users and uses that don't yet exist. The primary contribution of this paper is in presenting a method for anticipating future uses of new technology by looking at users’ higher-order motives or activities for current and emerging technology. We identify three high-orde...

Technologies can have harmful effects on users’ psychological health, on society, and on the environment. “Technology traps” arise when users and societies become stuck with technologies and the harmful consequences produced by these technologies. In this paper, the authors describe five technology traps: incompetence, self-miscontrol, misbehavior, techno-centrism, and environmental degradation...

With the gradual maturation of multimedia technology and the rapid development of network technology, it becomes more convenient to access and disseminate digital information, such as digital images, audio and digital video. Currently, the rapid escalation of the Internet has made the issue of protecting copyrights of digital contents very much important. Therefore digital watermarking technolo...