Dr. Lex Toet

Alexander Toet received his PhD in physics from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1987, where he worked on visual spatial localization (hyperacuity) and digital image processing. He is a senior research scientist at TNO (Soesterberg, The Netherlands) where he investigates multisensory (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory) perception, and the crossmodal interactions between these different senses, with the aim to optimize the quality of user experience of virtual, augmented and mixed reality environments. He also investigates to what extent multisensory interfaces can elicit the senses of telepresence and embodiment with telerobotic systems, with the ultimate aim to enhance task performance in remote operations. Alexander Toet is affiliated with the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences of the University of Utrecht where he researches the visual perception of fused multimodal imagery.