Understanding the seeking-encountering tension: Roles of foreground and background task urgency

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Highlights：

• Investigated the seeking-encountering tension in an eye-tracking experiment.

• Foreground & background tasks triggered information seeking & encountering, resp.

• Significant relationships existed between task urgency & seeking/encountering behavior.

• Enriched the understanding of multitasking in human information acquisition.

• Unlocked a new quantitative research paradigm for the field.

摘要

•Investigated the seeking-encountering tension in an eye-tracking experiment.•Foreground & background tasks triggered information seeking & encountering, resp.•Significant relationships existed between task urgency & seeking/encountering behavior.•Enriched the understanding of multitasking in human information acquisition.•Unlocked a new quantitative research paradigm for the field.

论文关键词：Seeking-encountering tension,Foreground task,Background task,Task urgency,Eye tracking,Information encountering

论文评审过程：Received 24 November 2021, Revised 8 February 2022, Accepted 15 February 2022, Available online 22 February 2022, Version of Record 22 February 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2022.102910