Differences in Design: Video Game Design in Pre and Post 9/11 America
LaLone, N. J. (2012). Differences in Design: Video Game Design in Pre and Post 9/11 America.
CV
Education
- August 2018
- Ph.D. Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University
- May 2012
- M.A. Sociology, Texas State University
- December 2007
- B.S. Applied Sociology, Texas State University
Work experience
- Current
- Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Games and Media, Rochester Institute of Technology.
- 08/2019 - 08/2023
- Assistant Professor. Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
- 08/2018 - 07-2019
- Post Doctoral Researcher Associate. School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Assistant Professor, College of Science and Technology. Bellevue University.
- Director of the Data Science Program
- Director of the Business Analytics Program
- 08/2016 - 08/2017
- Teaching Fellowship, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University.
- 12/2013 - 08/2016
- Research Assistant, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University.
- 08/2013-12/2013
- Teaching Assistant, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University.
Publications
Run Amok: Group Crowd Participation in Identifying the Bomb and Bomber from the Boston Marathon Bombing
Tapia, Andrea H., Nicolas J. LaLone, and Hyun-Woo Kim. "Run Amok: Group Crowd Participation in Identifying the Bomb and Bomber from the Boston Marathon Bombing." Proceedings of the 11th International ISCRAM Conference. 2014.
Crowdsourcing Investigations: Crowd Participation in Identifying the Bomb and Bomber from the Boston Marathon Bombing
Crowdsourcing Investigations: Crowd Participation in Identifying the Bomb and Bomber from the Boston Marathon Bombing." International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management 6:4 60-75.
Harnessing Twitter and Crowdsourcing to Augment Aurora Forecasting
LaLone, Nicolas, et al. "Harnessing Twitter and crowdsourcing to augment aurora forecasting." Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. ACM, 2015.
The Scene: a Conceptual Template for an Interactionist Approach to Contemporary Music.
Joseph A. Kotarba, Nicolas J. LaLone. (2014). "The Scene: A Conceptual Template for an Interactionist Approach to Contemporary Music," in Norman K. Denzin (ed.) Revisiting Symbolic Interaction in Music Studies and New Interpretive Works (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Volume 42) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.51 - 65
Hybrid Community Participation in Crowdsourced Early Warning Systems
LaLone, N., Tapia, A. H., Case, N. A., MacDonald, E., Hall, M., & Heavner, M. J. (2015). "Hybrid Community Participation in Crowdsourced Early Warning Systems." In Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference - Kristiansand, May 24-27.
Fluctuations, Technologies and Media: Social Change and Sociology Change
LaLone, Nicolas & Andrea Tapia. (2016). "Fluctuations, Technologies and Media: Social Change and Sociology Change." Information, Communication & Society. 19(5) 559-564.
Embracing Human Noise as Resilience Indicator: Twitter as Power Grid Correlate.
LaLone, Nicolas, et al. (2017). "Embracing human noise as resilience indicator: twitter as power grid correlate." Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure 2:4: 169-178.
Practical Insights into the Design of Future Disaster Response Training Simulations
Alharthi, Sultan A., LaLone, Nicolas J., et al. "Practical insights into the design of future disaster response training simulations." Proceedings of the 15th ISCRAM Conference – Rochester, NY, USA May 2018. 2018.
Association Mapping: Social Network Analysis with Humans and Non-Humans
LaLone, Nicolas. (2018). "Association Mapping: Social Network Analysis with Humans and Non-Humans." Retrieved from Electronic Theses and Dissertations for Graduate School.
Making Maps Available for Play: Analyzing the Design of Game Cartography Interfaces
Toups, Z. O., Lalone, N., Alharthi, S. A., Sharma, H. N., & Webb, A. M. (2019). Making Maps Available for Play: Analyzing the Design of Game Cartography Interfaces. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 26(5), 1-43.
Scaling 911 Texting for Large-Scale Disasters: Developing Practical Technical Innovations for Emergency Management at Public Universities
Tapia, A. H., Giacobe, N. A., Soule, P. J., & LaLone, N. J. (2019). Scaling 911 Texting for Large-Scale Disasters: Developing Practical Technical Innovations for Emergency Management at Public Universities. In Emergency and Disaster Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 707-720). IGI Global.
A Tale of Dungeons and Dragons and the Origins of the Game Platform
LaLone, Nicolas. "A Tale of Dungeons & Dragons and the Origins of the Game Platform." Analog Game Studies 3.6 (2019).
A Vision of Augmented Reality for Urban Search and Rescue
LaLone, N., A. Alharthi, S., & Toups, Z. O. (2019, November). A Vision of Augmented Reality for Urban Search and Rescue. In Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019 (pp. 1-4).
The Structure of Citizen Bystander Offering Behaviors Immediately After the Boston Marathon Bombing
LaLone, N., Toups, Z., & Tapia, A. (2020, January). The Structure of Citizen Bystander Offering Behaviors Immediately After the Boston Marathon Bombing. In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Paper to Pixels: A Chronicle of Map Interfaces in Games
Toups, Z. O., LaLone, N., Spiel, K., & Hamilton, B. (2020, July). Paper to Pixels: A Chronicle of Map Interfaces in Games. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 1433-1451).
Talks
Voices of Command, Bodies in Peril: The Female in Current Video Games
Roundtable at 2012 Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver CO, USA
Values Levers and the Unintended Consequences of Design
Poster at 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Baltimore MD, USA
Crisis Response Wargame for Training and Classroom Use
Poster at 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), State College PA, USA
Is Play the Thing? Video versus Board and the Spaces in-between
Poster at 2014 International Conference on Meaningful Play, East Lansing MI, USA
Is it Just Me or Are the Imperials Getting Darker? Race and the Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Conference at 2014 Meeting of the Pop Culture Association, Chicago IL, USA
Aurorasaurus: Crowdsourced Citizen Space Weather Science
Conference at First Annual Meeting of the Citizen Science Association, San Jose CA, USA
Academic Posters or so you thought you’d try and be clever but ended up using every word in your paper to make a very tiny maze on a very bvig piece of paper and now all you can do is stand there awkwardly while people take a look and scramble away or try to solve the maze instead of figuring out what your paper is about. Why are you still reading?
Workshop at 2016 IST Graduate Student Workshop on Academic Posters, State College PA, USA
Making Maps Available for Play: A Design History of Game Cartography Interfaces
Conference at 2018 Meeting of the Pop Culture Association, Indianapolis IN, USA
The Loss of Sociability in MMORPGs as Seen Through FFXI: Online
Conference at 2018 International Conference on Meaningful Play, East Lansing MI, USA
Explosions: Destroying What is Because It’s Simply Too Much
Seminar at Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS), Champaign IL, USA
Dungeons and Dragons: The First Platform
Conference proceedings talk at International Meeting of the Pop Culture Association, Washington D.C.
Teaching
Service and leadership
- Chair, Emerging Technology Caucus, International Association of Emergency Management
- University of Nebrask at Omaha: Doctoral Program Committee
- University of Nebrask at Omaha: Undergraduate Program Committee
- University of Nebrask at Omaha: IS&T Advisory Committee
- FEMA Higher Education Program: Co-Chair Science and Technology Integration Program