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Last Friday, within the MuseIT Project (Horizon Europe), we organised a ‘Participatory Session’ with the association ViSTA from Karlsborg. ViSTA means ‘we who think differently’ and is a creative meeting place for people with disabilities. As the MuseIT project is a co-creative project where we explore and develop our Remote Performance Platform together with end-users, we conduct a number of so-called ‘Participatory Sessions’. During our co-creative session in Karlsborg, we worked with the visual representations of emotions, sometimes also called avatars. During the session, the group had to create and design their own ‘avatars’ in 3D and give them different expressions depending on different emotions. The technicians' job is now to try to transfer these 3D ideas into digital form. The group also helped us to evaluate an already digital representation so that we can go further and improve its appearance and behaviour. Over the past year, through these participatory sessions, we have learnt a lot about how representations of emotions can look and how important they are in the creation of our Remote Performance Platform. For example, the representation can be important both as abstract forms and more vivid things. A favourite representation in Karlsborg was the avatar dog, which came in many shapes and forms. Read more about the work with MuseIT and the Remote Performance Platform on our website.