News

We were saddened to hear of the death of our friend and colleague André Arbogast, who passed away suddenly on August 18, 2016 at the age of 56. André was a very active and respected member of the sensory community and a long-time member and supporter of the Sensometric Society. He was well known especially to Fizz software users, and he helped to establish connections between different teams in France and worldwide. The European Sensory Society (E3S) has organized the collection of tributes in remembrance; please visit www.e3sensory.eu for details.

For the first time, the Sensometric Society organized tutorials at the EuroSense symposium, held in Dijon, France, on September 11, 2016. We are very pleased that 89 participants registered for the tutorials, which exceeded our expectations quite a bit. Many thanks to the 8 presenters involved in the 5 different tutorials, and to our colleagues from Elsevier for the great cooperation in organizing these. 

Michael

The presentations and posters of the Sensometrics-by-the-Sea conference 2016 have been uploaded.

Follow the links in the Program 2016 on the Meetings site to access the content.

In case of difficulties, please contact

webadmin@sensometric.org 

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/