This research addresses the challenges of peri-urbanisation, which often leads to a loss of landscape character and residents' sense of place. To actively develop peri-urban landscapes as identitycreating places, we employ high-fidelity virtual reality scenes and use advanced sensing techniques, including electrodermal activity, heart rate variability, and eye-tracking. Unlike previous studies that have focused on whole urban scenes, our study delves into individual landscape elements to understand their impact on perception. Our analysis reveals correlations between participants' preferences, physiological responses and eye-tracking indices, shedding light on the complex relationship between subjective experience and visual attention patterns in peri-urban environments.