TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparing food waste interests and environmental concerns in young adults
T2 - A qualitative reasoning approach
AU - Zacharaki, Konstantina
AU - Prat-i-Pubill, Queralt
AU - Nguyen, Jennifer
AU - Agell, Nil
AU - Agell, Núria
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2025/1
Y1 - 2025/1
N2 - The large amount of food waste produced worldwide highlights the urgent need to investigate this phenomenon promptly with new methods in order to reduce it. In the present work, we consider a qualitative reasoning approach in an attempt to understand people's interest in the food waste (FW) problem. In this direction, we run an in-person taste experiment and acquire data from 310 participants. We apply a measure based on hesitant linguistic terms sets (HLTS) to capture the degree of interest towards the environment as individuals respond to the New Environmental Paradigm scale (NEP) (Dunlap et al., 2000). We also calculate an index of hesitancy based on participants’ responses. Previously, they had to decide on whether a piece of fruit allegedly coming from the supermarket tastes better than another one allegedly coming from an alternative source such as applications designed to reduce food waste.
AB - The large amount of food waste produced worldwide highlights the urgent need to investigate this phenomenon promptly with new methods in order to reduce it. In the present work, we consider a qualitative reasoning approach in an attempt to understand people's interest in the food waste (FW) problem. In this direction, we run an in-person taste experiment and acquire data from 310 participants. We apply a measure based on hesitant linguistic terms sets (HLTS) to capture the degree of interest towards the environment as individuals respond to the New Environmental Paradigm scale (NEP) (Dunlap et al., 2000). We also calculate an index of hesitancy based on participants’ responses. Previously, they had to decide on whether a piece of fruit allegedly coming from the supermarket tastes better than another one allegedly coming from an alternative source such as applications designed to reduce food waste.
KW - Applied AI
KW - Food waste
KW - Hesitant linguistic terms
KW - Qualitative reasoning
KW - Similarity measures
KW - Sustainable decision-making
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85213288624&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cogsys.2024.101318
DO - 10.1016/j.cogsys.2024.101318
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85213288624
SN - 1389-0417
VL - 89
JO - Cognitive Systems Research
JF - Cognitive Systems Research
M1 - 101318
ER -