Practical framework and design of experiments

FMS is a relative simple methodological approach to plan and carry out, and it is relatively simple for a sensory professional who is familiar with conventional profiling. Since only a few studies have implemented FMS in the sensory evaluation of food, there has been little discussion and variation of its application. Before a FMS is carried out, a few factors have to be considered. These factors and their implications are discussed in the following. 

The sensory professional could decide to restrict the assessors in their product groupings. In other holistic methods, e.g. the projective mapping technique, it is an option to instruct assessors only to report on one type of answer, e.g. textural. This is not recommended for FMS, unless its focus is on specific non-functional terms, e.g. emotional, as the assessors will independently choose the personally most relevant discriminators. 

Rapid Sensory Profiling Techniques and Related Methods 

Samples for the evaluation will, in most food product cases, have to be served blinded in such a way that the assessor cannot recognize the original product brand or origin. If, on the other hand, overall product concepts are to be evaluated, the brand, product fact sheets, labels or the actual product packaging can be applied. Samples are best identified by three-digit random numbers. 

As a holistic approach, FMS is a good tool for eliciting holistic constructs and contrasts present in the sample set. As more holistic constructs are better elicited by naive assessors as consumers, training sessions of assessors are not a part of the method process. If focus is on highlighting attributes from a predefined vocabulary, a previously trained panel can be applied with benefit. 

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Abstract. A new discipline. Usability Design, is introduced as an extension to Rational Unified Process (RUP). The aim is to make RUP more user-centred. The discipline springs out of best practices for user-centred design and contains activities that have been carefully tested. Five new roles are introduced to take responsibility for the different activities. An example is given to show the content of the workflow, the workflow details and the activities. The Usability Design discipline help projects to focus on usability and the users throughout the system development lifecycle. In the tutorial the participants will learn how to work with the new discipline within the RUP framework. It will contain practical examples and there will be room for discussions based on tbe participants own experience. 

Tolerance specification methods provide a complete framework to define the geometric dimensioning and tolerancing. In practice, the tolerances are specified by the designer, mainly based on experience and/or empirical information. However, the standards do not prescribe a method of how tolerances must be specified. 

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