STAT-CONCOR: SOFTWARE FOR VALIDATING THE PANEL OF ASSESSORS, SUBSEQUENTLY TO THE FABRIC HAND EVALUATION
STAT-CONCOR: SOFTWARE FOR VALIDATING THE PANEL OF ASSESSORS, SUBSEQUENTLY TO THE FABRIC HAND EVALUATION

Summary/Abstract: In previous papers, the STAT-HAND (Statistical Analysis for Hand) original software was developed and a case study of practical use was presented for the fabrics’ hand evaluation by means of blind tactile sensory feeling. STAT-HAND is an interactive ICT-based learning tool that helps students acting as evaluators during the laboratory activities performed within the course "Systems and Equipment for the Textile Products' Quality Assurance", from the master curriculum delivered at the Faculty of Textile, Leather and Industrial Management – Iasi. However, without minimizing the related issues of the fabrics' subjective evaluation and the importance of the panel with experts, textile students (regardless of the specialty and the study year) must be able to make connections between the product design and the sensory comfort expected for a specified end use. Therefore, for the discipline "Quality assurance in weaving”, the students from the fourth year of study have to develop strategies for the quality control of fabrics according to a specified destination, paying attention to the selection of the specific measuring processes for the objective evaluation of fabrics. In this context, it is also considered useful for teaching students about the primary handle attributes and the subjective evaluation of fabrics hand, with the support of the STAT-HAND software. Subsequently to the fabric hand evaluation, a statistical analysis was required to prove the reliability of the students’ panel and the connection between the subjective and the objective evaluations they carried out. Therefore, for the next stage regarding the topics of subjective and objective evaluation, it was necessary to develop STAT-ConCor (Statistical Analysis for Concordance and Correlation). This software includes two facilities developed in accordance with two algorithms for calculating the Kendall and Spearman coefficients. STAT-Con uses Kendall’s coefficient of concordance calculation as a measure of emphasizing the agreement/disagreement among evaluators within the panel. STAT-Cor uses Spearman’s coefficient of correlation calculation as a measure of emphasizing the level of correlation between the subjective and objective evaluation.

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