Jukka Vahlo
PhD
julavi@utu.fi +358 29 450 2856 +358 50 911 9776 Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5835-5945 |
Areas of expertise
video games; AI-based game recommendations; game choice; gameplay experience; player profiles; game profiles; player markets; player-centric data; motivations to play; qualitative research; quantitative research; project management; multidisciplinary research; Stata; SPSS; AI experience; cultural studies.
video games; AI-based game recommendations; game choice; gameplay experience; player profiles; game profiles; player markets; player-centric data; motivations to play; qualitative research; quantitative research; project management; multidisciplinary research; Stata; SPSS; AI experience; cultural studies.
Publications
- Development and Validation of the General-Purpose PlayfulQuest Scale : Investigating Playfulness in Dating App Use (2025) Mindtrek '25: Proceedings of the 28th International Academic Mindtrek Tuuri, Kai; Vahlo, Jukka
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Eight types of video game experience (2025)
- Entertainment Computing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Exploring game-based psychological empowerment and its motivational and wellbeing effects (2025)
- Entertainment Computing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Exploring music-based attachment to video games through affect expressions in written memories (2025)
- Entertainment Computing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Validating Motives of Autonomous Players (MAP) inventory: a bottom-up model of general motivational factors to videogame play (2025)
- User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Elävä kaupunki hengittää sekä pelejä että leikkejä, mutta niihin suhtautuminen jakaa kaupunkilaisia (2024) Ratala, Onni; Kirveennummi, Anna; Koponen, Aki; Sihvonen, Lilli; Vahlo, Jukka; Suominen, Jaakko
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Informal learning and wellbeing outcomes of gameplay and their associations with gameplay motivation (2023)
- Frontiers in Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Life Thinning and Gaming Disorder : A Longitudinal Qualitative Registered Report (2023)
- Peer community journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ontological diversity in gaming disorder measurement: a nationally representative registered report (2023)
- Addiction Research and Theory
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Reply to Billieux and Fournier (2022): collaborative shortcut to ontological diversity COMMENT (2023)
- Addiction Research and Theory
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal)



