1 Informal Online Decision Making:

(Blank if Blind Review) Existing group decision support systems focus on complex or enterprise decision-making, much of it pre-Web. There is little research that takes this work and applies it to support a new type of lightweight, informal decision-making made popular by the amount of information on the Web. We examine related work and undertake an online survey and formative study to examine how people currently use the Web for decision support. Our results and analysis provide a basis for the design of a lightweight informal Web decision support tool. Author Keywords Group decision support systems, informal, desig