Joan
Casas Roma

Joan Casas-Roma is a member of the Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), where he teaches Logic, Graphs and Complexity, and the Fundamentals of Mathematics for Multimedia, and he is an adjunct professor at the University of Vic, where he teaches Game Design on the Multimedia, Applications and Video Games bachelor's degree programme. He has a PhD in Information and Knowledge Society from the UOC with a thesis focused on the logic of imagination, for which he did two research periods at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and the Logic and Epistemology Group at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany). After completing his doctoral degree, he joined the EU FP7 Metamakers project at Falmouth University (UK) as a postdoctoral researcher, where he worked on the study of game design techniques for the creation of meaningful decisions and the representation of ethical systems in digital games. He subsequently taught digital game design, theory and computing courses at the same university. For the last two years, he has been a postdoctoral researcher in the UOC's SmartLearn group, where he has worked on issues related to the ethics of artificial intelligence and technology, as well as on learning ethical skills through the use of digital games. His research interests are in the areas of ethics of artificial intelligence, philosophy and ethics of technology, game design and game studies.