Hem Chandra Joshi, Utkarsh Yadav, Biplav Srivastava, Ram Manohar Singh
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops
In this paper, we want to understand people's perception towards food with respect to their background, and use this as the context to evaluate food-based AI systems in future. Therefore, we conduct the first-of-its-kind survey on perception about food available in India at educational institutes from participants who may associate themselves with different regions within and outside India. We find that users have unequal access to food from different regions today and this may be considered unfair by existing group fairness definitions. Further, we find that many food choices transcend regions, a majority of people prefer food outside their own regions and that usage of digital tools for food is on the rise.