Dr. Sarit Szpiro

Dr. Szpiro’s research is at the intersection of assistive technologies and home based learning paradigms to support typical and special populations including children, older adults, people with visual impairments, and autism. Dr. Szpiro uses cutting edge technologies including computer vision, augmented reality, and machine learning to develop tools that enhance users in real life situations.

• BSc – Mathematics and Cognitive Science (Hebrew University)
• MA – Cognitive Psychology (Tel Aviv University)
• Phd – Cognitive Psychology (New York University)
• Postdocs – Assistive technologies and augmented reality (Cornell Tech & Harvard Medical School)

• Szpiro, S. F., & Yashar, A. (2023). Individual differences in image preferences: a personalized image enhancement method. Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5231-5231.
• ‏Hoogsteen, K. M., & Szpiro, S. (2023). A holistic understanding of challenges faced by people with low vision. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 138, 104517.
• Szpiro, S., Twito, R., & Hadad, B. S. (2022). She still seems angry: inflexibility in updating emotional priors in autism. Journal of Vision, 22(14), 3508-3508.
• ‏Arbel, R., Szpiro, S. F., Sagi, J., Khuri, M., Berkovits, L., & Cohen, N. (2022). Reappraising negative emotions reduces distress during the COVID-19 outbreak. Current Psychology, 1-10.
• ‏Szpiro, S. F., Burlingham, C. S., Simoncelli, E. P., & Carrasco, M. (2022). Perceptual learning improves discrimination while distorting appearance. bioRxiv, 2022-09.
• ‏Hoogsteen, K. M., Szpiro, S., Kreiman, G., & Peli, E. (2022). Beyond the cane: describing urban scenes to blind people for mobility tasks. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS), 15(3), 1-29.‏