The complexity of policy decision-making raises the need to elicit opinions from large and
heterogeneous groups of stakeholders with broad and diverse sets of expertise. Existing …

The Delphi technique was largely developed to avoid the problems of freely interacting
groups such as dominant individuals and pressure to conform to the majority view. Our …

We investigate the relative impact of internal Delphi process factors–including panelists'
degree of confidence, expertise, majority/minority positioning–and an external factor …

Internet-based direct democratic discussion has received much attention and will probably
be one of the next generation methods for open and public citizen forums. Such forums …

The Delphi technique provides different opportunities to researchers than survey research.
Essential components of the Delphi technique include the communication process, a group …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of Delphi group size and opinion diversity on group
members' information load as well as on their overall experience of the Delphi process-in …

With the recent rise of Internet based public opinion studies, panel studies have been
utilized with much more frequency. Although the benefits of panel methods are well known …

We examined whether giving feedback to participants in a Delphi study about the level of
agreement across the expert panel had an effect on opinion change between rounds. We …

The Delphi method was developed in the 1950's by the RAND Corporation under the so-
named US Air Force sponsored project. Since then, the use of Delphi has spread worldwide …

Much attention has been focused on the collective intelligence of thousands and thousands
of people worldwide [Introne et al. 2011][Malone et al. 2009][Malone and Klein 2007][Gurkan …