Publications
Peer-reviewed

ISMAR 2026
Navigating the Last Mile: Evaluating Head- and Cane-Mounted Cameras for Egocentric Spatial Awareness

ISMAR 2026
Actionable guidance outperforms map and compass cues in demanding immersive VR wayfinding


ACM VRST 2025
Static or temporal? Semantic scene simplification to aid wayfinding in immersive simulations of bionic vision

J. Neural Engineering 2025
Simulated prosthetic vision confirms checkerboard as an effective raster pattern for epiretinal implants


Preprints & under review

Under review · 2026
Adaptive training for navigation under stress: impacts of stress exposure and spatial anxiety

Preprint · 2025
A deep learning framework for predicting functional visual performance in bionic eye users
Selected posters
CVPR VizWiz Workshop '25 Evaluating camera placement for last-mile navigation by blind users — Varshney, Nadolskis, Beyeler.
VSS '25 A computational virtual-patient pipeline for predicting perceptual capabilities with visual prostheses — Skaza, Murlidaran, Varshney, Wen, Eckstein, Beyeler.
VSS '25 Assessing the efficacy of visual augmentations for high-stress navigation — Turkstra, Varshney, Su, Grafton, Giesbrecht, Hegarty, Beyeler.
VSS '23 Visual navigation under high-stress conditions — Varshney, Munns, Kasowski, Zhou, He, Grafton, Giesbrecht, Hegarty, Beyeler.
