Core business

T-Xchange is an initiative of Thales Netherlands and The University of Twente. T-Xchange offers customers a method and an environment for solving complicated design problems. T-Xchange facilitates a multi-stakeholder interactive innovation processes, supported by highly advanced visualization and simulation technology.
T-Xchange aspires to acquire an internationally leading position. The first T-Xchange Cell is has been established in 2005 in the Virtual Reality Lab of the University of Twente. Further Cells have been installed in Delft, Paris and Singapore.

Mission Statement

T-Xchange supports industry, government, businesses and research institutes to accelerate and improve their innovation processes. This will result in a shorter time-to-market and greater chances of success in the market.

Kind of products

The T-Xchange Cell is accessible for all disciplines, for regional, national and international enterprises and institutions, which will help putting each other on the right track of application-oriented research and of innovative product development right from the start. T-Xchange has worked for partners in the domains building, environmental planning, public order, safety and high tech systems and products.

Relation to design for usability

The T-Xchange Cell at the University of Twente has been established to advance the collaboration between research and innovation. The lab facilitates multi stakeholder / multi issue interaction, helping to prove to the customer the added value of the concept and to test the acceptance of this concept by the end user. The Virtual Reality equipment enables real time visualization, brainstorming, benchmarking, scenario generation and serious gaming in a synthetic environment. Participants engage in what has been termed “responsive visualized situation awareness”, which means interaction with a “living”, shared image in a virtual environment related to its context. This method has been termed EBS (Effect Based Solution) process. The Design for Usability project is important to T-Xchange because of the need of understanding and optimizing EBS.

Contact person

Dr. J. de Heer (Johan)
Director
T-XChange
P.O. box 1123
7500 BC Enschede
Johan.deHeer@TXChange.nl
+31(0)53 7112460

A picture is more than a thousand words, a game is more than a thousand pictures (Duke)