Publications & Presentations

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Kilmer, E.D., Rubin, J.D., Scanlon, M, Kilmer, J.N. (2023). Therapeutically applied RPGs to support adolescent social connection and growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Creativity in Mental Health.
• Bindman, S.W., Sobel, K., Behbakht, S., Divanji, R., Shahn, E., Scanlon, M. (2021). “Let’s draw chocolate milk together”: Supports and challenges for families’ joint engagement with artistic tablet apps. In Proceedings of IDC ’21: ACM Interaction Design and Children conference, June 26-30, 2021. Athens, Greece. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
  
• Rubin, J, Scanlon M, Cechony A, Chen K (2021). “Here I can just be myself”: How youth and adults collaboratively develop an identity-safe community across difference. Journal of Community Psychology.
• Bonny JW, Scanlon M, Castaneda LM (2020). Variations in Psychological Factors and Experience-Dependent Changes in Team-Based Video Game Performance. Intelligence, Volume 80, May–June 2020.
• Bindman SW, Castaneda LM, Scanlon M, & Cechony A (2018, April). Am I a Bunny?: The Impact of High and Low Immersion Platforms and Viewers’ Perceptions of Role on Presence, Narrative Engagement, and Empathy during an Animated 360° Video. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p. 457). ACM.
• Scanlon M, Swanson T, Darvasi P, & Jenson J (2017, August). The first door: gender, authority and choice in The Stanley Parable. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (p. 37). ACM.
• Bushnell D, Martin M, Scanlon M, Chen T, Chau D, Viswanathan H. Equivalence and measurement properties of an electronic version of the Psoriasis Symptom Inventory. Qual Life Res 23(3): 897-906, 2014.
• Scanlon M, Wassink AB (2010). Using acoustic trajectory information in studies of merger. In Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 16.2 (Selected papers from NWAV 38).
• Scanlon M, Wassink AB (2010). African American English in Urban Seattle: Accommodation and intra-speaker variation in the Pacific Northwest. American Speech 85(2), 205-224.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Presentations

• Scanlon M (2021). Social support in group mentoring: A Network analysis of in-person and remote formats. Presentation at Society for Research in Child Development, April 2021.
• Scanlon M, Cechony A (2021). Links between social support and relationship quality in a group mentoring context. Presentation at Society of Research on Adolescence, March 2021.
• Scanlon M (2019). Teamwork-based developmental outcomes in student-led high school dance. Presentation at Society of Research on Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland, March 23, 2019.
• Scanlon M, Shahn E, Cechony A (2019). Group influences on adolescent identity development in a creative context. Presentation at the 26th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Research on Identity (ISRI), Naples, Italy, May 14, 2019.
• Scanlon M, Cechony A, & Shahn E (2019). Cognitive interviewing for scale validation: An examination of the ISI-5. Presentation at the 26th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Research on Identity (ISRI), Naples, Italy, May 14, 2019.
• Scanlon M, Castaneda L (2019). Teacher perspectives on a hybrid approach to elementary STEM PD. Presentation at International Society for Teacher Education conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 25, 2019.
• Castaneda L, Scanlon M (2018). Who am I? Role and Narrative in 360 video. Presentation at Game Developers Conference (GDC), San Francisco, CA, March 19-23, 2018.
• Setyawan J, Scanlon M, Grebla R, McCarrier KP, Supina D, Pawaskar M, Martin M (2016). Qualitative assessment of patient-perceived impact of ADHD in adults. Presentation at Psych Congress.
• Scanlon M, McCarrier KP, Coons SJ, Martin ML, Campbell AK, DeBusk K, Lungershausen J, Kaschinski D, Arduino JM, Liepa AM. Incorporating the patient’s voice into instrument development: How do patients describe the impact of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) on their breathing? 22nd Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research, Vancouver, BC, October 21-24, 2015.
• Scanlon M, Martin ML, McCarrier KP, Wolfe M, Quintanar-Solares M (2013). Mapping relationships among pain descriptors used by patients: Evidence from qualitative interviews in four chronic pain conditions. Value in Health, 16(3), A31-A32.
• Bushnell, DM, McCarrier KP, Scanlon M, Nelson DR, Martin ML, & Buesching DP (2013). Validation and psychometric evaluation of a health care orientation assessment. Value in Health, 16(3), A34.

Popular Press Coverage

• “Nonprofit takes D&D digital to help kids who struggle socially, and to study its own impact.” Geekwire, 2020.
• “What can Dota players teach us about human learning?” Dotabuff, 2016.

Academic Work

• Dissertation: Stylistic variation in African American Language: Examining the social meaning of linguistic features in a Seattle community. 2020, University of Washington.
• MA thesis: A social network study of a Seattle neighborhood. 2007, University of Washington.