Virtual architecture – Subjective experience of virtual and real objects

Abstract

The subjective experience of various objects is usually investigated on photographs of objects, or in case of art, on artistic pictures, shown as digital photographs on a computer screen. Even when research is done on architectural objects, such as various types of buildings, as stimuli researchers usually use photographs of those objects. According to that, we might ask, would our subjective experience of certain objects change if we observe it as a real three-dimensional object or its two-dimensional projection on a photograph? In our experiment 46 psychology students estimated their subjective experience of 10 objects shown in four different presentations.