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eblip-29785	Wildemuth, Barbara M.	The Urgency and Importance of an Active Information Seeking Task Influence the Interruption of Information Encountering Episodes	2020.0		.htm	text/html	1500	61	37	The factors that influenced interruptions of IE episodes included the searcher’s reluctance to invest the time and effort needed to engage with the encountered information, due to the importance or urgency of the active information seeking task; the searcher’s reluctance to leave the active information seeking task, seeing IE as a distraction from that task; the searcher’s reluctance to multitask, i.e., to keep track of both the IE episode and the active information seeking task; the searcher’s reluctance to risk a dead end; the searcher’s reluctance to be seduced by the “shiny thing” of encountered information (p. 136) and to drift too far away from the active information seeking task; and the searcher’s reluctance to get “caught up” emotionally in the IE episode (p. 138), a “temptation that is satisfying only in the short-term” (p. 138).   IE episodes were also interrupted 1) after the searcher examined the encountered content but did not explore it further, and 2) after the searcher explored it but decided it was not useful.  	cache/eblip-29785.htm	txt/eblip-29785.txt