Hunter G. Hoffman

Hunter G. HoffmanHunter Hoffman, Ph.D., is Director of the Virtual Reality Research Center at the University of Washington in Seattle. Hoffman is research scientist in Mechanical Engineering, and affiliate faculty in Radiology and Psychology. He conducts research at the University of Washington, Seattle Shriners Hospitals for Children Galveston, and Effat University in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. His graduate education was in Cognitive Psychologist specializing in human learning/memory and attention, and is one of the early pioneers applying virtual reality technology to difficult medical and psychological problems such as pain, phobias, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Hoffman and Patterson co-originated the technique of using virtual reality pain distraction for severe burn patients. Hoffman has designed several virtual worlds (e.g, SnowWorld pain distraction, part of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Triennial), and he has designed and developed a number of custom original hardware technologies, such as photonic fiberoptic magnet-friendly VR goggles that can be used during fMRI brain scans. Hunter Hoffman was named one of the top “fast 50” innovators of the next 10 years (http://www.fastcompany.com/fast50_06/index.html.

Publications

Virtual Reality as Distraction Technique for Pain Management in Children and Adolescents
Virtual Reality as Distraction Technique for Pain Management in Children and Adolescents
Barbara Atzori, Hunter G. Hoffman, Laura Vagnoli, Andrea Messeri, Rosapia Lauro Grotto. © 2019. 12 pages.
For a growing number of medical procedures, patients remain awake during the procedure, they feel pain during the medical procedure, and they remember the pain after the...
Virtual Reality as Distraction Technique for Pain Management in Children and Adolescents
Virtual Reality as Distraction Technique for Pain Management in Children and Adolescents
Barbara Atzori, Hunter G. Hoffman, Laura Vagnoli, Andrea Messeri, Rosapia Lauro Grotto. © 2018. 11 pages.
For a growing number of medical procedures, patients remain awake during the procedure, they feel pain during the medical procedure, and they remember the pain after the...