Publications

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Under Review

Enhancing Obstacle Visibility with Augmented Reality Improves Mobility in People with Low Vision (under review). Lior Maman & Sarit Szpiro

Stronger Effects of Motion Priors on  Sensitivity and Bias in Children (under review). Eman Mhajne & Sarit  Szpiro

Video Prompting Improves Employment Skills among Moderate and Moderate-Severe Older Adults with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities (submitted). Tanweer Milhem & Sarit Szpiro.

Perceptual learning improves discrimination but does not improve repulsions (under review). Sarit Szpiro, Charlie Burlingham, Eero Simoncelli & Marisa Carrasco.

Augmented Reality Remote Assistance for Low Vision Users in Cultural Heritage Sites (under review). Rami Salameh, Joel Lanir & Sarit Szpiro. 

Published

Age-related sensory declines in auditory & visual perception and their interaction with cognitive decline (in press). Mais Abbas, Sarit Szpiro* & Hanin Karawani*. (shared senior authorship)

Challenges and opportunities of blind parents and sighted children in joint play activities (in press). Szpiro, S.F.A. & Mor Avraham.

Is she still angry? Intact learning but no updating of facial expressions priors in autism (2024). Renana Twito, Batsheva Hadad & Sarit F.A. Szpiro. Autism Research.  https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3145

A Holistic Understanding of Challenges and Coping Strategies of People with Low Vision (2023). Karst M.P. Hoogsteen & Szpiro, S.F.A.  Research in Developmental Disabilities.

Reappraising Negative Emotions as a way to Reduces Distress During the COVID-19 Outbreak (2022). Arbel R., Szpiro, S.F.A., Sagi J., Khuri M., & Noga Cohen. Curr Psychol. 2022 Sep 15:1-10. doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-03642-6.  

Beyond the cane - Describing Urban Scens to Blind People for Mobility Tasks (2022). Karst M.P. Hoogsteen,  Szpiro, S.F.A, Kreiman G., Peli E.. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS), 15, 3, Article 20, 29 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3522757

Designing and evaluating a customizable head-mounted vision enhancement system for people with low vision (2019). Y Zhao, S. F. A Szpiro, L Shi, S Azenkot. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) 12 (4), 1-46. 

How people with low vision access computing devices: Understanding challenges and opportunities (2016) S. F. A Szpiro, S. Hashash, Y. Zhao, S. Azenkot. Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS, 2016).

CueSee: exploring visual cues for people with low vision to facilitate a visual search task (2016). Y. Zhao, S. F. A Szpiro, J. Knighten & S. Azenkot. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp, 2016).

Finding a store, searching for a product: a study of daily challenges of low vision people (2016). S. F. A Szpiro, Y. Zhao, S. Azenkot. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp, 2016).

Foresee: A customizable head-mounted vision enhancement system for people with low vision (2015). Y Zhao, S. F. A Szpiro, S. Azenkot. Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS, 2015).

Exogenous attention enables perceptual learning. S. F. A Szpiro & M Carrasco (2015). Psychological Science 26 (12), 1854-1862

Exogenous attention facilitates location transfer of perceptual learning. I Donovan, S. F. A Szpiro & M Carrasco (2015). Journal of Vision, 15 (10), 11-11.

Learning one task by interleaving practice with another task. S. F. A Szpiro, BA Wright & M Carrasco (2014). Vision Research, 101, 118-124.

Perceptual learning modifies untrained pursuit eye movements. S. F. A Szpiro, M Spering & M Carrasco (2014). Journal of Vision, 14 (8), 8-8.

Self-motion holds a special status in visual processing. R Salomon, S Szpiro-Grinberg & D Lamy (2011). PLoS One. 6 (10), e24347.