News

This year's Sensometrics meeting was a great event, thanks to everyone who was involved as organizer, contributor, attendee, or in any other function.

Conference material will be made available soon in the meetings section.

We also had our annual general meeting during the conference; minutes will be posted in due time in the members only section (login required).

I want to take the opportunity to thank the outgoing committee members John Ennis (secretary), Dominic Buck and Rune Christensen for their service to the society over the past 4 years.

Also, I'd like to congratulate the newly elected members and wish them all success in their new role:

John Castura (chair)
Brian Guthrie (secretary)
Cécile Bavay (ordinary member)
Nicolas Pineau (ordinary member)

A list of all current committee members can be found at the Committee page. Please support the committee in its varied activities.

Best wishes,

Michael

Please go to the page

Program 2016

to view an overview of confirmed abstracts by category and presentation type.

More details to come within the next days. 

Note that the early registration deadline for this year's Sensometrics conference has been extended to June 1st. Please make sure to register before or on that date to benefit from the reduced fees.

Looking forward to meeting all or at least many of you in Brighton,

Michael (chair)

The abstract submission deadline for this year's Sensometrics meeting has been extended to April 17th.

With that, also the deadline for application for travel grants and scholarships has been extended to the same date.

Please submit in time as late submissions may not be considered.

Michael (chair)

We are pleased to announce that the 13th Sensometric Meeting will feature a Data Analysis Workshop. The workshop topic is "Appropriate Methods of Imputation for Consumer Hedonic Data".

The challenge is to perform appropriate data imputation for 570 consumers, each of whom evaluates 6 brown breads in a 16-present-6 sensory-informed balanced incomplete block design. These data were analyzed and discussed by Franczak et al. (2015). For your convenience, the workshop data set is available in two locations: (i) the R package sensory (see bbread), and (ii) on the Sensometrics Data Set Repository (see Brown Bread data).

To be considered as a potential workshop presenter, please send your abstract to John Castura by May 16, 2016. The abstract (up to 250 words) should summarize your statistical methods, results, and conclusions.

Data Analysis Workshop presenters will be encouraged to prepare a manuscript for the Sensometrics 2016 special issue of Food Quality and Preference. (However you are permitted to submit your own original manuscripts to any journal of your choice.)

Thanks & we hope to see you in Brighton-by-the-Sea!

Chris Findlay, Paul McNicholas, & John Castura

Sensometrics 2016 Data Analysis Workshop organizers

All,

please note that the abstract submission deadline for this year's Sensometrics meeting in Brighton, UK, is approaching fast. Please make sure to submit your abstract by March 29 via the conference homepage. 

Looking forward to meeting you "by the sea",

Michael (chair)

Until April 26^th (extended deadline), the Society of Sensory Professionals is accepting submissions for Oral/Poster Presentations and Technical Workshops for the 2016 meeting, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on October 26-28. Become part of our sensory program by sharing your research with your colleagues in sensory science.

www.sensorysociety.org/meetings/2016Conference

The 2016 EuroSense Meeting will be held September 11-14 in Dijon, France. The scientific committee accepts submission of abstracts until April 1^st. 

www.eurosense.elsevier.com/

Sensometrics 2016 tutorial descriptions are available under Meetings /

Program 2016

Timings of the session will fixed at a later date to outline in best possible combinations and accomodate attendees' interests.

The tutorials will be held on 26th July 2016.

 

All,

we invite everyone to submit tutorial and workshop proposals for the following upcoming events:

Sensometrics 2016

• Pre-conference tutorials (1/2d) to be held July 26, 2016 in Brighton, UK
• Data analysis workshop: As for other meetings, we would like to hold another data analysis workshop. Please consider sending a proposals (for a workshop leader and/or for useful datasets). All suggestions welcome.

EuroSense Sep 11-14, 2016

• Satellite tutorials (1/2d) to be held in conjunction with the meeting (details tbd)
  Note: these tutorials could be identical or similar to those presented @ Sensometrics, but presenters might be asked to adopt the material as needed to meet the somewhat different audience)
• Sensometrics workshop: The organizers strongly encourage proposals for a workshop on Sensometrics. No general restrictions on format, any suggestions on organizer, topics, presenters, etc. are welcome.
  

Please send any proposals to the chairperson; for Sensometrics, you can also send them to scientific.chair {at} this website's domain; for EuroSense, you can also send them directly as proposals to the conference chairs.

Looking forward to numerous submissions,

Michael (chair)

I'm pleased to announce that the Danish Technical University's Sensometrics course has seen some updates with all material (including podcasts etc.) now being made available publicly:
http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/courses/02930/

So you can now complete the course on your own, if you want – enjoy!

Thanks to Per Brockhoff for these efforts and for passing the information on to us.

Michael (chair)