Damon Hamm - Design Implementation, Innovation

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

The program at Carnegie Mellon University involves rigorous instruction and practice employing modern techniques of experiment design, user testing, data analysis, user-centered design, information architecture, wireframing, and rapid prototyping.

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interaction design and development

test creation application (2002)

A system to enable professors in the math and sciences to create, administer, and grade tests, quizzes, and homework more efficiently and effectively by storing and sharing resources online. In 4 months we researched, designed, and implemented a functional prototype in Java.    ... read more ...

pfizer online application (2003)

An online system to aid in the reporting and data collection of adverse drug interaction events. My role in this project was to redesign the GUI using advanced DHTML and custom JavaScript (hand coded), build templates, and integrate the pages with JSP and java applets. Some special features that I developed included building a 'frame-like' functionality using Javascript and dynamic layers.     ... read more ...

weekendsigns.com (2004)

A small business website for selling real estate signs. My graphical treatment reflects the signs they produce with a site architecture redesign to emphasize their core strengths. The site employs an easily extensible tableless CSS design with dynamic XML driven Flash components.    
... see new site ...    ... see old site ...

haptic navigation (2002)

This project is an experiment in touch sensing navigation using a wireless transmitter, custom hardware and software. The possible applications include navigation for the blind or silent and invisible information 'display' for military applications.     ... read more ...

supermarket kiosk (2002)

A two week project to design, implement, user test, and redesign a public kiosk of our own choosing. The purpose of this interface was to find where items are located in a supermarket, or if they even carry the item for which you are searching.    ... read more ...

cell phone mp3 player (2002)

A demonstration of an MP3 player application in use on a cell phone. The design was created to utilize voice recognition as well as traditional navigation techniques. Illustrated are the principles of accelerator functions and best practices for using these with speech interfaces.    ... read more ...

univ. of pittsburgh brain imaging software presentation (2003)

For the University of Pittsburgh's Learning Research Development Center, I produced, storyboarded, designed, and narrated an automated software presentation for distribution within the scientific community. I simulated the proposed operation of the software demonstrating its use.   
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carnegie mellon visual tour (2002)

A Flash and HTML campus tour. This was a short turnaround team project, wherein my roles were concept outline, art direction, and creation of the interactive map section. The map uses extensive actionscript to create the multilayered 'zoom' effects and mouse controls.    ... launch me - (1.5MB Flash) ...