Sensometrics tutorials (early afternoon)

• Analysing relationships among various data blocks using GSCA-SEM. Instructors: Heungsun Hwang, Quoc Cuong Nguyen

16:00 - 19:00

2 Sensometrics tutorials (afternoon session)

• Introduction to R’s Shiny Applications Through Practical Examples. Instructor: Thierry Worch 
• Liking Data Analysis with XLSTAT: Methods, Applications, and Best Practices. Instructor: Fabien Llobell

The cost of the Sensometrics tutorials will be of 50€, and with a limited number of attendees. 

Sensometrics: Empowering Sensory Evaluation — Past, Present, and Beyond. Pascal Schlich

10:15

How I convinced myself of the practical use of b-clustering – and some consequences. Michael Meyners

Clustering of assessors: Handling Heterogeneity with a Noise Cluster. Fabien Llobell

Investigating differences in check-all-that-apply product characterizations under blind vs informed conditions following the “one citation, one vote” principle. John Castura

From biosignals to sensory variables: feature extraction and modelling of GSR and PPG responses to basic tastes. Jose M Casanova

Say plant, think meat: revealing hidden attitude divergences from implicit and explicit measure. Antoine Brun, Carlos Gomez-Corona, Donato Cereghetti

The PLS Legacy: From Regression to the Analysis of Multisource Sensory and Consumer Data. Foundations, Current Practices, and Future Directions. Laura Trinchera

New Insights into Wine Aroma: A Causal Analysis of Red Fruit Perception. Elizabeth Tomasino

Multivariate Functional Principal Component Analysis for analyzing TCATA data. Caroline Peltier

Beyond the Mean Configuration: Agreement and Uncertainty in Multiple Factor Analysis. Burkhar Dettmar

Influence of sweetness, bitterness and consumer clusters on liking and emotional response to chocolate. Qian Yang

Methodological Assessment of Quantitative Descriptive Analysis and Polarized Sensory Positioning in a Complex Food System. Paula Ardila Valle

Modeling under Uncertainty with Bayesian Networks. Concha Bielza

Coffee break

11:15 - 12:45

LLM-Based Coding versus Text Embedding Methods for Analyzing Free-Text Responses in Sequential Monadic Consumer Tests. Thorsten Guksch

From Open-Ended Comments to Structured Sensory Data: NLP-Based Prediction of JAR Responses and Sensory Descriptors. Gabriel Lopez Font

Workshop Sensometric/SSP: “Dealing with zero and threshold intensities in sensory data. How can we ensure we can find meaningful differences when intensities are low?”

Fabien Llobell, SensElevation. Daniel Schoonbrood, University of California-Davis. Katarzyna Jesionkowska, Kerry

The Emperor’s New Clothes: From Claims to Evidence—What Can AI/I Actually Deliver. Sébastien Lê

Can We Trust the Past? Validating Historical Sensory & Consumer Data for Modern Modelling. Thierry Worch

Historical X-ray Data as Sensory Proxies in Meat Products Quality Modelling. Maria Cardona

Sensory Analysis of Oat Drinks – Addressing a Fast-Changing Market. Martina Sokolowsky

Generative Synthetic-Respondent Simulation for Stability Auditing in Bipolar Consumer Profiling with Small Panels: Linking Panel-Derived Sensory Profiles to Consumer Acceptance. Hye-Seong Lee

Poster session 2 & Coffee break

Gala dinner at Only You restaurant

From Silos to Drivers: Connecting Sensory, Consumer, and Textual Data through Bayesian Networks and GenAI. Lionel Jouffe

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Discrete Choice Experiment on Coffee Choice: Effect of Sensory Input and Cultural Differences between Indonesia and Denmark. Andika W. Putro

Consumer physiological response to food in relation to anticipated and experienced liking. Andrés Viadel Lloría

Beyond explicit measures: cross-cultural differences in implicit attitudes toward pulses and cereals. Juliana Melendrez Ruiz

Using AI to design meal contexts for animal‑origin products and their commercial plant‑based analogs. Sonia Ventanas

From Tasting to Colour Palettes: A Data-driven Framework for Flavor-Evoked Colour Imagery. Lee Seo Yeong.

Impact and Appraisal of Contextual Evocation Methods. Daniel Schoonbrood