User:Patty Scheel

Patty Scheel is an architect currently living in Germany. Since 2001, she increasingly spends time in cyberspace, and is blown away by wikipedia. A mother of 2 primary school children, she is fascinated in particular by the teaching potential of computers, and has been watching with keen interest the adoption of handheld technology in some schools. Another focus of hers has been the human/computer interface, and how this will develop as people interact with smaller computers.

Patty has a child who is dyslexic, and has thus been busy educating herself in that field. Recently she has brought together her various interests, to found a project to develop a handheld computer designed specifically to meet the needs of dyslexic learners. This will be a not-for-profit enterprise, for which her three years employment as the volunteer coordinator for Habitat for Humanity in Austin, Tx., has equipped her with concrete expertise.

Patty hopes to find others interested in the same problems - dyslexia, education, educational computer games, and technology design - to help her develop the project of creating a handheld for dyslexic learners. To this aim she has started several pages in the Dyslexia wiki to invite collaboration on this project, at Dyslexia handheld computer.