Service

  •   Welcome to Sensory Evaluation & Consumer Insights Service


  • We support companies and researchers through technical assistance and sensory testing services in order to improve product development and research

  • Presentation
  • We offer
    * Access to expertise to design your study, analyze your data and make recommendation on your different types of projects
    * Assistance with methodological choices for sensory evaluation and market research 
    * Support to develop sensory program
    * Ad-hoc trained panels
    * General and targeted consumer panels
    * In-person and online surveys
    * Quantitative and Qualitative consumer tests
    * Consumer experience and Behavioral approaches
     
  • Services
  • Our services include but not only
    * Project design and protocol development
    * Development of screener and ballot with input from the client
    * Panelist recruitment
    * Data collection 
    * Data analysis: inferential statistics, multivariate analysis and advanced modelling 
    * Assistance with data visualization and interpretation
    * Assistance with internal and external communication
     
  • Facilities
  • Our facilities include
    * Food products preparation and storage space – Food grade safe
    * Individual booths; Large scale Sensory Theatre of 75 individual booths;
    * At home and Outdoor tests
    * Controlled environments (temperature, light…)
    * Focus group room + Observation room with video and recording capabilities
    * Immersive room dedicated to context effect study
    * Food and non-Food products can be tested
    * Computers and/or Tablets for ballot presentation and data collection

    Booth 1
    Individual Booth

     

    Booth red light 1
    Booth + Red Light

     

    Sensory Theatre
    Sensory Theatre - Capacity 75 individual booths

     

    Immersive room 1
    Immersive Room - Context study

     

  • Contact us

  • For more information about our services and rates, you can contact
    Dr. Gaëlle Chanlot

    Staff Researcher
    2029 RMI Sensory Building
    374 Old Davis Road
    Davis, CA 95616-8571
    Phone: 530 - 754 - 3684 / E-mail: gchanlot@ucdavis.edu

  • Events/Sign up

  • If you want to become a panelist, please fill in this recruitment form