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At Compusense, we champion best practices for increased efficiency in your testing. We help you design good tests and achieve reliable and robust outcomes. At the same time, we assist in defining your product and elevating your brand standards by following guidelines. With Compusense, you can also reduce your project's time and cost while improving your testing efficiency.

Design Good Tests

Design Good Tests

Learn about the importance of experimental, complete block, balanced incomplete block and sensory informed designs (SID).

Establish a Brand Standard

Establish a Brand Standard

Identify challenges, discover solutions and understand results better using the Compusense Feedback Calibration method.

Be More Efficient

Be More Efficient

Increase efficiency by pinpointing challenges, finding the right solution, and understand your results using Compusense Cloud.

Compusense provides comprehensive practical guides that help you and your team through all stages of your sensory research project. From the initial planning phase to the final stages, our step-by-step guides offer clear and concise instructions to ensure the success of your project. Streamline your sensory research process and achieve accurate, reliable results.

Consumer Home-Use Testing

Consumer Home-Use Testing

Download our practical guide to consumer home-use testing and go through the process of running a home-use test with consumer panelists.

Compusense's white papers are a valuable resource for anyone who wishes to learn more about the sensory and consumer science industry. Our white papers cover a wide range of topics, from the latest trends and innovations to best practices and methodologies. This page is an excellent source of information to help you stay informed and ahead of the curve. 

Descriptive Analysis With Home Panels

Descriptive Analysis With Home Panels

Learn how to conduct a home descriptive analysis panel while maintaining proper sensory protocols.

Consumer Home Use Tests

Consumer Home Use Tests

Discover how web-based sensory testing software allows data collection to be completed anywhere in the world with an

An Introduction to Temporal Methods

An Introduction to Temporal Methods

Review and explore suggested applications of temporal methods for sensory testing.

Our "Making Sense of” video series introduces and explores the fundamentals of sensory research in a way that is accessible to both beginners and experienced professionals. Whether you're looking to expand your knowledge or learn the basics, our videos have something for everyone.

Making Sense of Tetrad

Learn how sensory professionals use Tetrad tests to help them make important decisions about their products. Tetrad tests are a type of discrimination test used to determine if a noticeable difference exists between two samples.

Making Sense of: Difference from Control (DFC)

Learn about Difference from Control (DFC) testing, which is a discrimination testing method used to determine if there is a perceived difference in variations of a product.

Making Sense of: Descriptive Analysis

Learn why a well-trained descriptive analysis panel is one of the most powerful tools in sensory and consumer research.

Stay up to date with Compusense and industry best practice. This page will provide helpful videos for companies and people just getting started in Consumer and Sensory science as well as information for more advanced Sensory and Consumer Scientists.

Academic Consortium Publications

Academic Consortium Publications for February 2024

Orange trees in Florida are susceptible to Huanglongbing (HLB), which is a bacterium-caused citrus greening disease. HLB-affected trees don’t make fruit with the sweet orange taste you know and love. Controlling the sap-sucking insect that spreads the bacterium is one solution, but in war with an insect never underestimate the insect. Breeding HLB-resistant orange trees […]

Academic Consortium Publications for January 2024

To celebrate research published by members of the Compusense Academic Consortium in January 2024, we highlight the publication “Retronasal sensation of nonvolatile sweeteners and its impacts on the flavor perception of beverages” (2024) by authors Yue He, Jianshe Chen, Weiyao Shi, and Jingang Shi. Combining results from high-speed imaging and optical particle counts with sensory […]

Academic Consortium Publications for December 2023

Mary Poppins had it right, a spoonful of sugar really does help the medicine go down. In a recently accepted manuscript to Chemical Senses, Tansaraviput and Nolden present results from 121 consumers to show the metallic off-taste of ferrous sulfate (FeSO4) is masked not only by sucrose, but also by citric acid, sodium chloride. All […]

Quality

Quality

Quality test methods are used to evaluate a product based on its sensory attributes and overall consumer perception to ensure it meets certain standards of excellence and consistency. These methods provide a consumer-centric assessment of product quality, ensure consistency and adherence to quality standards and drive continuous improvement and customer satisfaction. Examples include, but are not limited to, Shelf Life, Degree of Difference,

Difference from Control, In/Out, etc.

Quality test methods are used to evaluate a product based on its key attributes to ensure it meets specific standards of excellence for consistency. These methods provide an internal assessment of the product quality to adhere to quality standards and achieve customer satisfaction. Examples include, but are not limited to, Shelf-Life, Degree of Difference, Difference from Control, and In & Out methods.