Graduate Student at University of California, Santa Barbara

Publications

Publications

  • Tom Bullock, Emily Machniak, You-Jin Kim, Radha Kumaran, Justin Kasowski, Apurv Varshney, Julia Ram, Melissa M. Hernandez, Stina Johansson, Neil M. Dundon, Tobias Höllerer, Barry Giesbrecht (2026).
    SABER: Spatial Attention, Brain, Extended Reality
    IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR) preprint title

  • Apurv Varshney, Lily M. Turkstra, Jiaxin Su, Mable Zhou, Scott T. Grafton, Barry Giesbrecht, Mary Hegarty, Michael Beyeler (2026).
    Actionable Guidance Outperforms Map and Compass Cues in Demanding Immersive VR Wayfinding
    under review preprint title

  • Mable Zhou, Apurv Varshney, Kayla P. Salcedo, Scott T. Grafton, Barry Giesbrecht, Michael Beyeler, Mary Hegarty (2026).
    Adaptive training for navigation under stress: Impacts of stress exposure and spatial anxiety
    under review preprint title

  • Apurv Varshney, Lucas Nadolskis, Tobias Hollerer, Michael Beyeler (2025).
    Beyond Physical Reach: Comparing Head- and Cane-Mounted Cameras for Last-Mile Navigation by Blind Users
    under review preprint title

  • Justin M. Kasowski, Apurv Varshney, Michael Beyeler (2025).
    Static or Temporal? Semantic Scene Simplification to Aid Wayfinding in Immersive Simulations of Bionic Vision
    ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) DOI title

  • Justin M. Kasowski, Apurv Varshney, Roksana Sadeghi, Michael Beyeler (2025).
    Simulated prosthetic vision confirms checkerboard as an effective raster pattern for epiretinal implants
    Journal of Neural Engineering DOI title

  • Jonathan Skaza, Shravan Murlidaran, Apurv Varshney, Ziqi Wen, William Wang, Miguel P Eckstein, Michael Beyeler (2025).
    A Deep Learning Framework for Predicting Functional Visual Performance in Bionic Eye Users
    preprint title

  • Apurv Varshney, Mitch Munns, Justin Kasowski, Mantong Zhou, Chuanxiuyue He, Scott Grafton, Barry Giesbrecht, Mary Hegarty, Michael Beyeler (2024).
    Stress affects navigation strategies in immersive virtual reality.
    Scientifiic Reports.
    title

  • Apurv Varshney, Justin Nilsen, Richa Wadaskar, and Misha Sra. (2021)
    Flick Gesture Interaction in Augmented Reality: AR Carrom.
    User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
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Published Posters

  • Apurv Varshney, Lucas Nadolskis, Michael Beyeler (2025).
    Evaluating Camera Placement for Last-Mile Navigation by Blind Users.
    VizWiz Workshop at CVPR Workshop Website

  • Jonathan Skaza, Shravan Murlidaran, Apurv Varshney, Ziqi Wen, Miguel P. Eckstein, Michael Beyeler (2025).
    A Computational Virtual Patient Pipeline for Predicting Perceptual Capabilities with Visual Prostheses.
    Vision Sciences Society (VSS) DOI.

  • Lily M. Turkstra, Apurv Varshney, Jiaxin Su, Scott Grafton, Barry Giesbrecht, Mary Hegarty, Michael Beyeler (2025).
    Assessing the efficacy of visual augmentations for high-stress navigation
    Vision Sciences Society (VSS) DOI.

  • Apurv Varshney, Mitch Munns, Justin Kasowski, Mantong Zhou, Chuanxiuyue He, Scott Grafton, Barry Giesbrecht, Mary Hegarty, Michael Beyeler (2023).
    Visual Navigation Under High-Stress Conditions.
    Vision Sciences Society (VSS) DOI.