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Publications

Can video prompting be used to teach employment skills to older adults with moderate to moderate-severe intellectual developmental disabilities? Milhem-Midlej T. & Szpiro S.F.A (2025). Research in Developmental Disabilities. 166, 105112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2025.105112

Stronger effects of motion priors on sensitivity and bias in children. Mhajne, E., & Szpiro, S. F. (2025). Cognition, 265, 106282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106282

Remote Assistance with Augmented Reality: A Flexible Accessibility Solution for Low Vision Museum Visitors. Salameh, R., Lanir, J., & Szpiro, S. F. A. (2025). International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2025.2531268

Video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMVDUBCp91I

Perceptual learning improves discrimination but does not reduce distortions in appearance. Szpiro SF, Burlingham CS, Simoncelli EP, Carrasco M (2025). PLoS Computational Biology 21(4): e1012980. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012980 (* = shared authorship)

Enhancing Obstacle Visibility with Augmented Reality Improves Mobility in People with Low Vision (2025). Lior Maman, Ilan Vol & Sarit Szpiro. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

The Impact of Different Obstacle Outline Enhancement in Augmented Reality on Walking Experience (2025). L. Maman, I. Yarkoni, I. Vol, S. Maidenbaum and S. F. A. Szpiro. In 2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), Saint Malo, France, 2025, pp. 1184-1185, doi: 10.1109/VRW66409.2025.00238

Feasibility of Real Time 3D Object Detection for Accessibility Use Cases (2025). Ali, M. H., Damouni, R., Nassar, A., Shimshoni, I., & Szpiro, S. F. (2025, March). In 2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). Saint Malo, France, 2025, pp. 1178-1179, 10.1109/VRW66409.2025.00235

Age-related sensory declines in auditory & visual perception and their interaction with cognitive decline (2024) Abbas, M., Szpiro, S.F.* & Karawani, H*.  Scientific Reports. 14, 30805. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-81154-y

(* = shared senior authorship)

The benefits of asymmetric abilities: blind parents play related interactions with sighted children (2024). Szpiro, S. F. A., & Keleynikov, M. Disability & Society, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2024.2439977

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

A Holistic Understanding of Challenges and Coping Strategies of People with Low Vision (2023). Hoogsteen K. M. P. & Szpiro, S.F.A.  Research in Developmental Disabilities. 138, 104517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2023.104517

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