Consumer Research Methods in Food Science

Consumer research in food science: history, objectives, ethics, and general principles.- The historical development of food systems and heritage.- Sensory and Multi-sited Ethnographic Methods for Consumer Research.- Consumer research through cookbooks and cooking shows: Linguistics, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies.- The analysis of images in consumer research.- A structural approach to social representations of food and beverages: some methods to scientifically study lay thinking.- Perception and representation: Sorting task and Projective mapping.- Measure of the verbal emotional responses triggered by food products.- Implicit methods of food wanting.- Methods for studying multisensory perception in consumer research.- Doing (consumer) research with children: what’s new?.- Creativity.- Qualitative data analysis:  Challenges and opportunities for food researchers.- Consumer research in social media: guidelines and recommendations.- Research through scenarios.- Implementing eye tracking technology in experimental design studies in food & beverage advertising.- Field Studies in Food Settings: Lessons Learned and Concrete Cases.- Econometric tools for food science.- Product portfolio management.- Use of lexicometry in sensometrics, an essential complement to holistic methods. An original methodology.- Concept and packaging testing in the food industry.- Measuring desirability using reaction cards method. Meal evaluations: Studying foods and beverages in the meal context.- Studying future food scenarios with design fiction.