Jaakko Väkevä
I'm studying aesthetic player experiences, focusing on how videogames can evoke emotional experiences that are personally meaningful, reflective, and transformative.
Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...
Email
jaakko.vakeva@aalto.fi
Areas of expertise
Honors and awards
CHI Best Paper Award
"An Experience That Could Not be Found Anywhere Else": Resonance as an Explanatory Concept for Player Experience Research and Game Design
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Mar 2026
CHI Best Paper Award
Mining Player Experience Trends From Game Reviews Using Large Language Models
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Mar 2026
CHI Honorable Mention Award
"Don’t You Dare Go Hollow": How Dark Souls Helps Players Cope with Depression, a Thematic Analysis of Reddit Discussions
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Mar 2025
CHI Best Paper Award
<br/>From Disorientation to Harmony: Autoethnographic Insights into Transformative Videogame Experiences
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May 2024
Research groups
- Professorship Lindqvist Janne, Väitöskirjatutkija
Publications
Mining Player Experience Trends From Game Reviews Using Large Language Models
Supriya Dutta, Joel Oksanen, Jaakko Väkevä, Shamit Ahmed, Markus Kirjonen, Perttu Hämäläinen
2026
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain
"An Experience That Could Not be Found Anywhere Else": Resonance as an Explanatory Concept for Player Experience Research and Game Design
Jaakko Väkevä, Jan Vornhagen, Heidi Rautalahti, Janne Lindqvist
2026
CHI 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Towards Understanding Waiting in Video Games
Nina Tepponen, Prabhav Bhatnagar, Jaakko Väkevä, Perttu Hämäläinen
2025
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
"Don’t You Dare Go Hollow": How Dark Souls Helps Players Cope with Depression, a Thematic Analysis of Reddit Discussions
Jaakko Väkevä, Perttu Hämäläinen, Janne Lindqvist
2025
CHI 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Questions without Answers : Enjoyment of Irresolution in Mystery Player Experience
Emmi L.K. Kärnä, Jaakko Väkevä, Heidi Rautalahti, Janne Lindqvist
2024
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
From Disorientation to Harmony: Autoethnographic Insights into Transformative Videogame Experiences
Jaakko Väkevä, Elisa Mekler, Janne Lindqvist
2024
CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems