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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)

The minutes of the (virtual) AGM held on September 22, 2015, are now available to all members. In case of comments or questions, please contact me.

You can find the minutes of the AGM 2015 here (members-only area, login required).

Thanks to those attending and contributing to the AGM with their discussions.

Best, Michael (chair)

We invite all members to the 2015 Annual General Meeting on September 22 at 4pm CEST 
((Berlin), 2pm ZuluTime, 3pm BST (London), 10am EDT (NewYork), 9am CDT (Chicago), 7am PDT (Los Angeles)).

We will meet virtually via WebEx; members have received dial-in details by email recently. If you cannot find the message, please login to the website and find the details in the members-only section. In case of issues, please contact the chairperson of the society (see "about us" section).

Please read the minutes of the AGM 2014 prior to the meeting as a vote of approval will be called for.

The agenda for the meeting is as follows:

1. Minutes of the previous meeting
   (please read them prior to the meeting in the members-only area on our website)
2. Chairman’s report
3. Treasurer’s report
4. Tutorials (Sensometrics, Eurosense; (including tutorial on communication in collaboration with ASA)
5. Sensometrics Meetings
   • 2016 Brighton, UK
   • 2018 Montevideo, Uruguay
   • 2020 tbd
6. Website
7. Elections 2016
8. Other topics

Please let me in case of any additional topics you would want to see addressed.

Looking forward to meeting you virtually next week.

Michael (chair)

The Sensometric Society Data Set Repository has gone live! With this repository, we offer access to various sensory data sets, being made available by some members of the society. The data sets can be used freely, e.g. to explore new (and maybe old) idea; if used for other than your purely personal purposes, all you are asked to do is to cite the reference associated with the data set.

While a couple of data sets are available already, we hope that you will consider contributing some of your data to the repository, too. By that, we intend to grow the repository to a very useful resource e.g. for students and others in need of some real data. (It is OK if some of the information in the data set would need to be masked.) At the same time, if use by others, the data sets might trigger additional references to your own work. Contributing is as easy as writing an email to our web administrator.

Thanks to John Castura for pushing this forward, and to Chris Findlay and Per Brockhoff for the first contributions.

Season's Greetings!

Michael (chair)

Dear all,

during this year's AGM, the terms of four society committee members ended, leading so some changes on the committee. I'd like to thank John Castura, Anne Hasted, Barbara Pfeiffer and Thierry Worch for their great contributions during the past couple of years. While Barbara and Thierry will continue in a different position on the committee, John and Anne will retire from the committee (for now), and I would like to thank both of them again for their invaluable efforts during the last 4 years. This includes (but is not limited to) in particular the website renewal and the extensive automation of the membership application and renewal processes, from which the society will benefit for years to come. Thanks for all your efforts for the society.

I am also very pleased that the following members were elected for a 4-year term on the committee:

• Barbara Pfeiffer (vice-chair)
• Thierry Worch (treasurer) 
• Chantal Gilbert (ordinary member)
• Gastón Ares (ordinary member)

Thanks to all of them for committing your time and energey to the society.

Please join me in congratulating them on their election and in wishing them a succesful and also enjoyable time on the committee.

Michael (chair)

The Sensometrics 2014 meeting is history, but many of the ideas that have been presented and discussed during the meeting are only about to start flourish.

I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who helped making the meeting such a great event, first and foremost the local organizers Tom Carr, Richard Popper and Ruta Lesniauskas and their team, as well as John Castura and his scientific committee.

Yet, a meeting would not be worth anything without the many great oral and poster presentations, or without an engaged audience throughout the discussions.

It would be impossible to name everyone, but thanks to all that that have contributed their share to make this a great and memorable event.

Looking forward to meeting you in Brighton in 2016 (if not before),

Michael (chair)

The Minutes of the AGM held at the 12th Sensometrics Conference in Chicago on Wednesday, 30th August 2014 are now available online

-> in the members' section.

Please use your login!

Best regards,

The Sensometrics Committee

Hereby, I invite you to this year’s annual general meeting of the society, which is scheduled to take place during the Sensometrics conference on Wednesday, July 30, at 6pm local time. I hope that you will join us for this meeting to discuss the path forward of the society. This also includes elections for half of the positions on the committee.

The preliminary agenda is as follows:

1. Minutes of the previous meeting
2. Chairman’s report
3. Treasurer’s report
4. Tutorials
5. Sensometrics Workshop @ Pangborn
6. Sensometrics Meetings
7. Global Sensory Group
8. Website
9. Committee elections
10. Other topics

Note that for topic 1, to keep the meeting as brief as possible we do not intend to read the minutes, so please take the time prior to the AGM to read them here. Any questions and comments will of course be welcome prior to approval of those minutes.

Hoping to meet you in Chicago,

Michael (chair of the Sensometric Society)