A TATRC-West/SUMMIT Workshop

Jan. 25, 2005 in Long Beach, CA

SUMMIT is a center in the School of Medicine dedicated to putting Stanford University at the forefront of medical and life-sciences education through the innovative use of information technology.

E-mail: simworkshop@stanford.edu


Workshop Sponsor

TATRC The Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)

TATRC is charged with managing core Research Development Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) and congressionally mandated projects in telemedicine and advanced medical technologies.


Gaming and Simulations Based Learning: Applications for Medicine

Speaker:

Hunter Hoffman, Ph.D.

Hunter received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (human memory and attention) at the U.W. in 1992, and did post-doctoral research on social influences on memory with Larry Jacoby in Canada. In 1993 Hunter returned to Seattle, and began virtual reality research at the University of Washington Human Interface Technology Laboratory in Seattle, one of the largest VR research laboratories in the world. This laboratory was founded and is directed by Professor Tom Furness, one of the fathers of virtual reality (Dr. Furness formerly headed the Air Force Supercockpit project).

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