Help!!! Position words

leungchai

When fill in "on the left of" or "on the right of", we should fill in what we see or from the directions of the object(s), I really confused.  Can anybody help?
Say:
The doll is on the left of the robot.

It is :
Robot
Doll

Or

Doll
Robot

leungchai

It's an English question.
Just to fill in "on the right of" or "on the left of".  However, I am really confused of how to judge the direction, whether it is
1.  directly from what we see, or
2.  from the direction of the object itself.

Any other views?