News-Gazette (Feb. 11) -- ISE Professor Ali Abbas has created the website to help people navigate decisions, from major ones like, "Should I start my own business" or "Should I get a divorce?" to relatively minor ones such as, "Should I buy a laptop or a tablet?" Ahoona, modeled after social networking sites like Facebook, invites users (either anonymously or using their name) to post decisions they're facing, solicit information and feedback from others and then run their decision though a "decision wizard." Also: WREX-TV (Rockford, Ill.,Feb. 11), Belleville News Democrat (from The Associated Press, Feb. 11), Peoria Journal Star (from AP, Feb. 11), Journal-Gazette & Times Courier (Mattoon/Charleston, Ill., from AP, Feb. 11), Freeport Journal Standard (from AP, Feb. 11), ABC7 (Chicago, Ill., from AP, Feb. 11), The Republic (from AP, Feb. 11), ASEE FirstBell (Feb. 12), Dubuque Telegraph Herald (from AP, Feb. 12), Rockford Register Star (from AP, Feb. 13), The Daily Journal (from AP, Kankakee, Ill., Feb. 13).
Related story: “Chicago Tonight” (WTTW-Channel 11; PBS; Chicago, Feb. 20) -- Wish you could get decision-making down to a science? U. of I. industrial and systems enterprise engineering professor Ali Abbas is a leader in the decision analysis field and has created a social website called Ahoona that breaks down theory and practice for its users to make quality life choices.