The Sensometric Society News

Access to FQAP - solution for login problems

Michael Meyners — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:15:26 GMT

Dear members,

if your membership includes access to FQAP and you experience problems with your login to Science Direct, please note that this is likely due to the fact that you have previously registered your account with your old society membership number. Unfortunately, access using the old numbers is no longer possible. Please re-activate your account following these guidelines (also available via our website in Members Only -> Online Journal Access). Please note that the last page of the document indicates how you can retrieve your current membership number which you need to use to successfully register with Science Direct.

Apologies for any inconveniences caused.

Michael

ASTM honors Tom Carr with Peryam Award

Michael Meyners — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:54:30 GMT

Tom Carr, member and former treasurer of the Sensometric Society as well as co-organizer of the next Sensometrics meeting, has received the David R. Peryam Award from the ASTM International Committee E18 on Sensory Evaluation of Materials and Products. The Peryam Award recognizes outstanding professionals in the applied sensory science field.

Follow this link for the official announcement by the ASTM with additional details.

Please join me in congratulating Tom for this well-deserved recognition of his work.

Michael

Membership renewals / International Year of Statistics 2013 / Season's Greetings

Michael Meyners — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:54:19 GMT

For all members that have not renewed their memebership yet for 2013, please do so asap to avoid any interruption/delay in access to Food Quality and Preference. Note again that we have added a new member category which offers membership without access to the journal at a substantially reduced rate.

I would like to take the opportunity to bring the International Year of Statistics 2013 to your attention: http://www.statistics2013.org/

Last but not least, I would like to express my thanks to all members that helped us throughout the year in different aspects to run the society matters and to enhance the benefits we can offer today.

I hope you'll all have a great Christmas break, and wish you all the best for 2013,

Michael

Membership Level Change

Barbara PFEIFFER — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:13:46 GMT

NEW: Please carefully read the note in case you are changing your membership level.

If you are changing your membership level upon renewal in fall,

for technical reasons your renewal date remains unchanged.

This will be manually fixed by our treasurer.

Please inform us in case this is not done within 2 weeks time.

New Courses with Discounts for Society Members Online

Barbara PFEIFFER — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 04:58:48 GMT

Check out the page Related Events to find more information on discounts granted for Society members. Next courses with reduced fees for members are the following:

IFP - Advertising Claims Support - Case Histories and Principles

IFP - A Powerful Framework to Improve Sensory Measurement

IFP - Drivers of Liking® and Emotion Mapping

A Call for Data!

John Castura — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 03:36:35 GMT

We plan to build a library of datasets to be hosted on the society’s website. The idea is to encourage the development of new statistical methods by making real data sets available.

Data sets used in peer-reviewed publications will be of particular interest to us – a note will be added so that any presentations or publications using your data are requested to cite your publication.

Please contact John Castura, Vice-Chair if you can make one or more of your datasets available on the Sensometric Society website.

Sensometrics 2014

John Castura — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 03:33:34 GMT

The announcement is now official: Sensometrics 2014 will be held in Chicago. Conference co-chairs Tom Carr and Richard Popper have set the conference for 29 July – August 1, 2014. Save the date! Details will follow in the months ahead.

Retrospect: 11th Sensometrics Meeting in Rennes

Michael Meyners — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:42:14 GMT

The 11^th Sensometrics Meeting took place July 10-13, 2012, in Rennes (France) with 145 participants from all over the world. I would like to thank the organizing and scientific committees for organizing a great and memorable event, in particular Marine Cadoret, Karine Bagory, and Sébastien Lê who successfully led the committees.

Presentation slides and abstracts are already available on the conference homepage (these will also become availble on the society's website in due course); you can also find some impressions from the meeting.

The XLSTAT award for the best student work as voted upon by the scientific committee was received by Cécile Bavay for her joint work with R. Symoneaux, I. Maitre, A. Kuznestova, P.B. Brockhoff, and E. Mehinagic on "Methodological development for sensory evaluation of product presenting biological variability: a case study on apple."

The poster awards (voted upon by all participants) went to:

1^st: Sébastien Berthelo in collaboration with M. Brossier, D. Gourret and J. Pagès:
"Another way to treat JAR scales: application to the sensory characterization of products"

2^nd: A. Crine in collaboration with A. Gruel and S. Lê:
"Ideal Profile Method: an efficient way to improve products?"

3^rd: Minh-Tam Lê in collaboration with Q. Carré and S. Lê:
"A napping based methodology for quickly getting a model of consumer emotions"

Congratulation to all awardees.

The next Sensometrics Meeting is planned to be held July 29-August 1, 2014, in Chicago (IL, USA). While details are yet to be confirmed, please mark this date already now in your calendar.

Looking forward to meeting you there at the latest,

Michael Meyners (chair)

Elections: New Sensometric Society committee

Michael Meyners — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:20:01 GMT

During last week's AGM, several positions on the committee had to be filled again due to end of the respective terms. The new committee stands as follows:

Chair:         Michael Meyners (Germany, through 2016)
Vice-chair: John Castura (Canada, through 2014)
Treasurer:   Anne Hasted (UK, through 2014)
Secretary:  John Ennis (USA, through 2016)

Ordinary members:
Dominic Buck (UK, through 2016)
Rune Christensen (Denmark, through 2016)
Barbara Pfeiffer (Switzerland, through 2014)
Thierry Worch (The Netherlands / UK, through 2014)

Please join me in welcoming all new members on the committee and support them throughout their term. Please also join me in thanking the retired committee members for their engagement in various society matters during their term:
Per Bruun Brockhoff, Isabelle Lesschaeve, Sébastien Lê, and Jean-François Meullenet.

Michael Meyners

Annual General Meeting Minutes Online

Barbara PFEIFFER — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:24:39 GMT

The Minutes of the AGM 2012 are available in the Members's Section now.

Please use your e-mail and password to log in.

Annual General Meeting -- Timing and Agenda

Michael Meyners — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:22:55 GMT

The 11^th Sensometrics meeting at Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes, France, is fast approaching, and with it the Annual General Meeting (AGM). It will take place July 11, 17:05h local time. The agenda for the AGM is as follows:

Minutes of the previous meeting (please read them here before the meeting)
Chairman’s report
Treasurer’s report
Membership
Member benefits
Sensometrics Meetings
Elections
Other topics

Looking forward to meeting many of you in Rennes,

Michael

Preliminary Scientific Program of the 11th Sensometrics Conference

Barbara PFEIFFER — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:06:27 GMT

Please find the preliminary program of this year´s Sensometric Conference in our Meetings section or directly on the dedicated conference homepage.

Discounts for members on upcoming courses

Barbara PFEIFFER — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:52:34 GMT

The Sensometric Society is pleased to announce that the Institute for Perception is offering discounted registration to members for these upcoming Fall 2012 courses:

Combinatorial Tools for Product and Brand Optimization
(The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, USA, November 5-6)
Drivers of Liking® and Emotion Mapping
(The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, USA, November 7-9)

Please see related Events pages of this website for more details by following the links above, or register on the Institute for Perception website.

Travel award recipients

Michael Meyners — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:59:47 GMT

We are happy to announce the following recipients of a travel award to attend the forthcoming 11^th Sensometrics meeting in Rennes:

Valérie (Lengard) Almli, Norway
Christian Dehlholm, Denmark
Elena Menichelli, Italy
Betina Piqueras-Fiszman, Spain/UK
Vanessa Rios de Souza, Brazil
Flávia Santos Twardowski Pinto, Brazil

Congratulations to all recipients. We look forward to your contributions at the meeting in Rennes.

Marine Cardoret
Sébastien Lê
Michael Meyners

Discounts for members on upcoming courses

John Castura — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:44:51 GMT

The Sensometric Society is pleased to announce that the Institute for Perception is offering discounted registration to members for these upcoming 2012 courses:

Advertising Claims Support: Case Histories and Principles (Sea Island, Georgia, USA, March 5-6)
A Powerful Framework for Sensory Product Testing (Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, March 26-28)
Descriptive Analysis and Panel Training (Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, March 29-30)
A Powerful Framework for Sensory Product Testing (Brussels, Belgium, May 21-22)
Drivers of Liking® and Product Portfolio Optimization (Brussels, Belgium, May 23-25)

Please see Related Events pages of this website for more details by following the links above, or register on the Institute for Perception website.

Bursaries/Scholarships 11th Sensometrics meeting

Michael Meyners — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:56:24 GMT

The Sensometric Society invites applications for
Travel bursaries
Student scholarships
for participation in the 11^th Sensometrics meeting 2012.

The Sensometric Society intends to grant at least one travel bursary and at least three student scholarships for attendance at the 11^th Sensometrics meeting, to be held July 10-13 2012 in Rennes, France.

Prerequisite for application to any of these is the submission of an abstract to the conference. Only accepted abstracts will be finally considered (though application needs to be received before notification). The decision about the grants will be made depending on the quality of the abstract, its acceptance as oral or poster, and potential further documentation. Notification about grants will be in mid May; recipients of grants are supposed to register by May 18 for the conference to benefit from the early bird fees.

Travel Bursaries

The travel bursary intends to allow a person to travel to the conference who would otherwise not be able to attend the conference. The bursary will include registration to the conference including the Conference Dinner, plus up to EUR 1200 to support travel expenses. Preference will be given to applications requiring long distance travel. Applications for the travel bursary should be supported by a reasonable (and substantiated) estimate of expected travel expenses for travel and stay.

Student scholarships

Student scholarships intend to help students to cover the costs incurred with attending the conference. Scholarships include registration to the conference including the Conference Dinner, plus EUR 50 for minor expenses. Applications need to be accompanied by a proof of studentship of the home university.

Decision about grants will be made by an independent committee, consisting of Tom Carr, Chris Findlay and Michael Meyners, in collaboration with the executive committee of the Sensometric Society. Please send applications accompanied by the abstract as (additionally) submitted to the conference no later than April 10, 2012, to the chair of the Sensometric Society.

On behalf of the Sensometric Society,

Michael Meyners (chair)

PhD Student Award - ESN Meeting

Barbara PFEIFFER — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:33:56 GMT

Please find information on the PhD Student Award for the next ESN Industry Meeting @ Aarhus in Denmark (25th-26th April, 2012) and how to apply in our Events section.

25% discount on Elsevier Food Science & Nutrition books

Barbara PFEIFFER — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:33:00 GMT

Elsevier's books division offers all members of the Sensometric Society a discount of 25% on Food Science & Nutrition books.

Please log in to the Membership area and check the Member Discounts to access the promotion code.

If you are not a member yet, please find more info on the Membership Application page on how to become one.

Time to renew your membership

Michael Meyners — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:15:02 GMT

Dear members and to-become members,

it is time again to renew your membership for 2012. Please make sure to do so before December 31st in order to ensure continued access to premium content on our website and uninterrupted access to Food Quality and Preference.

If you are not currently a member but would like to join the society, you can register now for 2012 and benefit from supplementary access to all premium content on the website until the end of the year for free. (Please note that this does not include access to FQAP, which will be activated for you only in January.)

There are two levels of membership:

Premium Individual Membership (annual subscription £105) - this includes both print and on-line access to Food, Quality and Preference for 2012

Individual Membership (annual subscription £95)- this gives on-line access to Food Quality and Preference for 2012

Please log in and click <View Profile> for renewal. For new applications, please follow the instructions under <Membership Application> in the <Membership> menu. Either way you'll be given the choice to pay through Paypal or via inter bank transfer.

Looking forward to welcome new members to the society, and to continue collaboration with all of you in 2012,

Michael

European Sensory Science Society - website online

Barbara PFEIFFER — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:24:39 GMT

Have a look at

http://www.e3sensory.eu/

to find information regarding the newly founded European Sensory Science Society.

It was constituted in Florence (Italy) on the 12th of May 2011, from the joining of national sensory societies from twelve countries: Austria, Denmark, Italy, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and United Kingdom.