“From millions of tasks to thousands of jobs” - m2work, a mobile microwork idea competition I’m helping to organize, was launched today by infoDev (World Bank) and Nokia
Speaking at the Desucon Frostbite Japanese pop culture event in Finland about digital manga consumption. My previous talk on the topic is now on YouTube (in Finnish).
My home page is now available in English, Finnish and Japanese, thanks to Transfluent. Let me know if you would like these updates to be translated, too. Happy holidays!
My lecture “Designing Successful Virtual Currency by Breaking (Almost) Every Rule in the Economics Textbook” was accepted to Game Developers Conference (GDC), 5-9 March 2012
Google Scholar has a cool new citation metrics tool. According to my profile, I have a total of 280 citations (includes self-cites), my h-index is 10, and my i10-index is likewise 10.
Latest updates
Acquisition, Retention and Monetization in Virtual and Social Spaces project final report released at HIIT/Aalto Gamification of Services seminar yesterday
Speaking about virtual currency design at HIIT seminar on Gamification of Services in Helsinki on 25 April
The Stoic Male: How Avatar Gender Affects Help-Seeking Behavior in an Online Game (full pdf) published in Games & Culture, vol. 7, no. 1
Wrote a guest post for the World Bank’s Private Sector Development blog: The New Map of Mobile Innovation: Some Surprising First Lessons
My GDC lecture slides and notes are now online: Designing Successful Virtual Currency by Breaking (Almost) Every Rule in the Economics Textbook
How do you price virtual goods? My consulting business Virtual Economists launched a Virtual Goods & Currencies Pricing Data product line for social and mobile game developers.
The LSE Innovation Co-Creation Lab (of which I am member) has launched a swanky new online presence. Check it out on web, Twitter and Facebook.
Bringing digital work to developing countries: guest post published in the World Bank’s Private Sector Development blog
“From millions of tasks to thousands of jobs” - m2work, a mobile microwork idea competition I’m helping to organize, was launched today by infoDev (World Bank) and Nokia
Designing Virtual Currency by Breaking (Almost) Every Rule in the Economics Textbook: the abstract of my upcoming Game Developers Conference lecture is online.
New job! I am starting as a researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science in professor Harry Barkema’s team. Formally my initial affiliation is Visiting Fellow at the LSE Asia Research Centre.
Speaking at the Desucon Frostbite Japanese pop culture event in Finland about digital manga consumption. My previous talk on the topic is now on YouTube (in Finnish).
My home page is now available in English, Finnish and Japanese, thanks to Transfluent. Let me know if you would like these updates to be translated, too. Happy holidays!
My lecture “Designing Successful Virtual Currency by Breaking (Almost) Every Rule in the Economics Textbook” was accepted to Game Developers Conference (GDC), 5-9 March 2012
A Digital Media Approach to Islamic Marketing: a paper I co-authored with the team behind Muxlim.com published in the Handbook of Islamic Marketing
Google Scholar has a cool new citation metrics tool. According to my profile, I have a total of 280 citations (includes self-cites), my h-index is 10, and my i10-index is likewise 10.
Real-Time Crowd Computing Using Social Media: presenting a poster at CrowdConf 2011 in San Francisco on Wednesday (with Yefeng Liu et al.)
Designing Motivation Using Persuasive Ambient Mirrors, a synthesis of my five-year collaboration with Tatsuo Nakajima, to be published in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.
Speaking at the DesuTalks Japanese pop culture seminar in Helsinki about the digital distribution of manga contents in Japan and overseas (in Finnish)
Speaking at a panel on online youth work at the opening seminar of the Finnish national online youth work development centre today (in Finnish, will be streamed online)
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