@inproceedings{9cef921d75294c2fb0f0bd9810751ca0,
title = "Capturing Young People s Interest in Food Waste Reduction: An Approach Using Qualitative Reasoning",
abstract = "According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) more than one third of the food produced globally is lost or wasted. This tremendous amount of food waste highlights the urgent need to investigate this phenomenon promptly with powerful 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. To do so, we have run an in-person taste experiment and have acquired data from 188 participants. We apply a measure based on a cosine similarity to capture the degree of interest towards the environment as individuals respond to the New Environmental Paradigm scale (NEP). Previously, they had to decide on whether a piece of fruit allegedly coming from the supermarket is better than another one allegedly coming from an alternative source such as applications designed to reduce food waste. We are using the taste experiment and the questions as a base to gain a more in-depth understanding of the drivers behind FW.",
keywords = "experimental data, food waste, Qualitative reasoning, similarity measures, sustainable decision-making",
author = "Konstantina Zacharaki and Jennifer Nguyen and Queralt Prat-I-Pubill and N{\'u}ria Agell",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 The Authors.; 25th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, CCIA 2023 ; Conference date: 25-10-2023 Through 27-10-2023",
year = "2023",
month = oct,
day = "19",
doi = "10.3233/FAIA230690",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-64368-448-2",
volume = "375",
series = "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications",
publisher = "IOS Press BV",
pages = "256--261",
editor = "Ismael Sanz and Raquel Ros and Jordi Nin",
booktitle = "Artificial Intelligence Research and Development - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence",
address = "Netherlands",
}