Vili Lehdonvirta's updates

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)

Just for fun: the New Yorker magazine reveals that I am, in fact, not Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of the crypto-currency Bitcoin.

Keynote presentation on Virtual economies in social media: the materialistic aspect of digital spaces at the Next Generation Information Technology Workshop, Waseda University, Tokyo

Prosocial behaviour in avatar-mediated interaction: the influence of character gender on material versus emotional help-giving - new article co-authored with colleagues at University of Tokyo.

Short essay titled Digital Labor in Online Games published in New Paradigms for Digital Games: The Finnish Perspective, University of Tampere, pp. 87-89.