News

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)

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)