Ulla Konnerup is researching how identity can be recreated through interaction in immersive virtual worlds to help rehabilitate people suffering from aphasia. Transforming rehabilitation into a virtual environment could provide multimodal communication, social interactions, and emotional experiences to help reestablish cognitive and communicative functions through bodily immersion and interaction via avatars. Empirical work from 2010-2012 involved establishing a project group of people with aphasia, relatives, and speech therapists who participated in interviews and pilot courses to test the benefits of virtual rehabilitation.