VALIDATION OF TACTILE SENSORY PANEL

In this work, we have developed a sensory assessment method which involves experts as a measuring instrument. These experts took part in a training program. During this program, their performance on the level of repeatability was controlled to decrease the variability of the provided measurements. We have emphasized the experience acquired by these panellists with the assessment of the denim fabric samples. These samples are treated by two different finishing processes. These panellists assessed 16 attributes selected to find out the difference between the treated samples. They were able to discriminate and to quantify the difference between the assessed samples.