About
Designer | Academician
Jayesh is presently an Associate Professor at IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, India. He currently heads the Immersive Media Experience Design Lab (IMXD Lab) at the School of Design.
Jayesh obtained his PhD in the field of Virtual Reality from Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France. He has a master's degree in design (M.Des) from
IIT Kanpur and a bachelor's degree in architecture
(B.Arch) from Kerala University, India. He works in the areas connected to interaction design, storytelling and immersive media.
Jayesh is presently an Associate Professor at IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, India. He currently heads the Immersive Media Experience Design Lab (IMXD Lab) at the School of Design.
FILMOGRAPHY
Manhole VR (VR Narrative - 6DoF, 2024, ~12’)
Currently under production.
Belonging (VR Narrative - 6DoF, 2023, ~6’)
Best Arts Project at India HCI 2023 (Link)
Manhole (Short Film, 2021, 9’)
Among the top three best short films (runner-up) at Unreal India Short Program 2021, by Epic Games (Link)
Official Selection at the 61st Annecy International Animation Film Festival, 2022, France (Link | Interview)
Official Selection at the 14th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 2022, India (Link)
Till We Meet Again (Cinévoqué - Responsive VR Film - 360°, 3D, Ambisonic, 2019, ~6’)
Presented at 17th ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2019, Griffith Film School, Brisbane, Australia.
Dragonfly (VR Film - 360°, 3D, Ambisonic, 2018, 10’)
Selection at Animela International Animation, VFX, Gaming, Comics & XR Festival 2025, IIT Bombay
Selection at Animela International Animation, VFX, Gaming, Comics & XR Festival 2025, IIT Bombay
Selection at Alpavirama International Youth Film Festival 2024, NID Ahmedabad
Presented at the South Asian Conference on Gender and Sexuality 2017, IIT Bombay.
Gulzar (2016, 15’)
Selection at Cannes Film Festival, Short Film Corner 2016
#Addicted (2015, 6’ 34")
Selection (Focus) at SIGNS Festival 2015, Kochi, Kerala
Somewhere Far (2014, 5’ 2")
Selection at 7th Int. Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 2014
Selection at 4th Gujarat International Film Festival of India, 2014
Selection at the International Euro Film Festival, 2015
Always There (2012, 6’)
PhD THESIS
Evoked Reality: From Dreams to Simulations
A conceptual framework of Reality referring to Presence
(Réalité évoquée, des rêves aux simulations : un cadre conceptuel de la réalité au regard de la présence)
Arts et Métiers ParisTech d'Angers, France.
[ Access PDF from Archive (ParisTech) ]
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Pillai J.S. and Verma M. (2019). "Grammar of VR Storytelling: Analysis of Perceptual Cues in VR Cinema", in: The 16th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production, 2019, London, UK.
[ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S., Murugan A. and Dev A. (2019). "Till We Meet Again: A Cinévoqué Experience", in: 17th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry (VRCAI) 2019, Brisbane, Australia.
[Demo] [ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S. and Verma M. (2019). "Grammar of VR Storytelling: Narrative Immersion and Experiential Fidelity in VR Cinema", in: 17th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry (VRCAI) 2019, Brisbane, Australia.
[ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S., Murugan A. and Dev A. (2019). "Cinévoqué" (Out of India Exhibition), in: India HCI 2019, Hyderabad, India.
[Presentation]
Pillai J.S., Murugan A. and Dev A. (2019). "Cinévoqué: Design of a Passively Responsive Framework for Seamless Evolution of Experiences in Immersive Live-Action Movies", in: 17th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019, Paphos, Cyprus.
[ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S., Ismail A., and Charles H.P. (2017). "Grammar of VR Storytelling: Visual Cues", in: Virtual Reality International Conference 2017, Laval, France.
[ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S., Athavankar U.A., Schmidt C.T.A., and Richir S. (2013). "Presence in Visual Mental Imagery", in: International Visual Informatics Conference 2013, Selangor, Malaysia.
[ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S., Schmidt C.T.A., and Richir S. (2013b). "Aesthetiography: The Next Milestone in the Confluence of Media", in: International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. Lisbon, Portugal.
[ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S., Schmidt C.T.A., and Richir S. (2013a). "Achieving Presence through Evoked Reality", Frontiers in Psychology (Frontiers in Consciousness Research) 4.
[ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S., Kadri A., Christofol H. and Richir S. (2008). Virtual Platform for Evaluation of Designer Products for Children, in: Confere 2008, Angers, France.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Gulzar (2016, 15’)
Selection at Cannes Film Festival, Short Film Corner 2016
#Addicted (2015, 6’ 34")
Selection (Focus) at SIGNS Festival 2015, Kochi, Kerala
Somewhere Far (2014, 5’ 2")
Selection at 7th Int. Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 2014
Selection at 4th Gujarat International Film Festival of India, 2014
Selection at the International Euro Film Festival, 2015
Always There (2012, 6’)
Selection (Focus) at SIGNS Festival 2013, Trivandrum, Kerala
Selection at India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay, Florida
Selection at India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay, Florida
Unspoken (2011, 9’)
Selection (Competition) at SIGNS Festival 2012, Palakkad, Kerala
Beyond (Original Title - Atheetham) (2010, 8’ 22”)
Selection at Cannes Film Festival, Short Film Corner 2011
Selection at New Media Film Festival 2011, Los Angeles, California
Selection at 2nd Int. Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala
Rang de Basanti (2007, 3’ 20”) (Student Film)
Best Film at RGB 07, NID Ahmedabad
Chal! (2007, 1’) (Student Film)
Second Best Short Film, We Care Film Fest 08, Delhi
Third Best Short Film, Ability Fest 07, Chennai
PhD THESIS
Evoked Reality: From Dreams to Simulations
A conceptual framework of Reality referring to Presence
(Réalité évoquée, des rêves aux simulations : un cadre conceptuel de la réalité au regard de la présence)
Arts et Métiers ParisTech d'Angers, France.
[ Access PDF from Archive (ParisTech) ]
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Pillai J.S. and Verma M. (2019). "Grammar of VR Storytelling: Analysis of Perceptual Cues in VR Cinema", in: The 16th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production, 2019, London, UK.
[ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S., Murugan A. and Dev A. (2019). "Till We Meet Again: A Cinévoqué Experience", in: 17th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry (VRCAI) 2019, Brisbane, Australia.
[Demo] [ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S. and Verma M. (2019). "Grammar of VR Storytelling: Narrative Immersion and Experiential Fidelity in VR Cinema", in: 17th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry (VRCAI) 2019, Brisbane, Australia.
[ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S., Murugan A. and Dev A. (2019). "Cinévoqué" (Out of India Exhibition), in: India HCI 2019, Hyderabad, India.
[Presentation]
Pillai J.S., Murugan A. and Dev A. (2019). "Cinévoqué: Design of a Passively Responsive Framework for Seamless Evolution of Experiences in Immersive Live-Action Movies", in: 17th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019, Paphos, Cyprus.
[ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S., Ismail A., and Charles H.P. (2017). "Grammar of VR Storytelling: Visual Cues", in: Virtual Reality International Conference 2017, Laval, France.
[ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S., Athavankar U.A., Schmidt C.T.A., and Richir S. (2013). "Presence in Visual Mental Imagery", in: International Visual Informatics Conference 2013, Selangor, Malaysia.
[ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S., Schmidt C.T.A., and Richir S. (2013b). "Aesthetiography: The Next Milestone in the Confluence of Media", in: International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. Lisbon, Portugal.
[ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S., Schmidt C.T.A., and Richir S. (2013a). "Achieving Presence through Evoked Reality", Frontiers in Psychology (Frontiers in Consciousness Research) 4.
[ Link >> ]
Pillai J.S., Kadri A., Christofol H. and Richir S. (2008). Virtual Platform for Evaluation of Designer Products for Children, in: Confere 2008, Angers, France.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Mishra E. and Pillai J.S. (2024). Art is Going to Save Us - The Self-Perception of the Mumbai Art Sphere in Contemporary Art Galleries, in: Proceedings of the Paris Conference on Arts & Humanities 2024 [Accepted]
Priya K, Pillai J.S., Shende A. (2024). Human interaction with the physical world: a brief review of studies on affordances, in: Proceedings of the Design Society. 2024;4:105-114. doi:10.1017/pds.2024.13
Sakhardande P., Murugan A. and Pillai J.S. (2020). Exploring Effect Of Different External Stimuli On Body Association In VR, in: The 27th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR), Atlanta, USA. [Poster]
Sarkar P., Kadam K. and Pillai J.S. (2019). Collaborative Approaches to Problem-Solving on Lines and Angles Using Augmented Reality, in: Technology for Education (T4E 2019), Goa, India.
Murugan A., Dev A., and Pillai J.S. (2019). Cinévoqué: Development of a Passively Responsive Framework for Seamless Evolution of Experiences in Immersive Live-Action Movies, in: The 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Sydney, Australia.
[Poster]
Kamboj V., Bhuyan T. and Pillai J. S. (2019). Vertical Locomotion in VR Using Full Body Gestures, in: The 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Sydney, Australia. [Poster]
Sarkar P., Sakhardande P., Oza U. and Pillai, J.S. (2019). Study of Augmented Reality Interaction Mediums towards Collaboratively Solving Open-Ended Problems, in: 27th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE2019), Dec2019, Kenting, Taiwan.
Sarkar P. and Pillai, J.S. (2019). User Expectations of Augmented Reality Experience in Indian School Education, in: International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD) 2019, IISc Bangalore, India.
Sarkar P., Pillai J.S. and Gupta A., (2018). ScholAR: A Collaborative Learning Experience for Rural Schools Using Augmented Reality Application, in: Technology for Education (T4E 2018), IIT Madras, India.
Escande E.L., Christmann O., Burkhardt J., Kadri A., Pillai J.S. and Richir S. (2010). A longitudinal study of participative construction of requirements in real innovative projects: the case of a virtual reality software for product design, in: Virtual Reality International Conference 2010, Laval, France.
Sarkar P., Kadam K. and Pillai J.S. (2019). Collaborative Approaches to Problem-Solving on Lines and Angles Using Augmented Reality, in: Technology for Education (T4E 2019), Goa, India.
Murugan A., Dev A., and Pillai J.S. (2019). Cinévoqué: Development of a Passively Responsive Framework for Seamless Evolution of Experiences in Immersive Live-Action Movies, in: The 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Sydney, Australia.
[Poster]
Kamboj V., Bhuyan T. and Pillai J. S. (2019). Vertical Locomotion in VR Using Full Body Gestures, in: The 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Sydney, Australia. [Poster]
Sarkar P., Sakhardande P., Oza U. and Pillai, J.S. (2019). Study of Augmented Reality Interaction Mediums towards Collaboratively Solving Open-Ended Problems, in: 27th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE2019), Dec2019, Kenting, Taiwan.
Sarkar P. and Pillai, J.S. (2019). User Expectations of Augmented Reality Experience in Indian School Education, in: International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD) 2019, IISc Bangalore, India.
Sarkar P., Pillai J.S. and Gupta A., (2018). ScholAR: A Collaborative Learning Experience for Rural Schools Using Augmented Reality Application, in: Technology for Education (T4E 2018), IIT Madras, India.
Escande E.L., Christmann O., Burkhardt J., Kadri A., Pillai J.S. and Richir S. (2010). A longitudinal study of participative construction of requirements in real innovative projects: the case of a virtual reality software for product design, in: Virtual Reality International Conference 2010, Laval, France.
