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Evgenia Hristova
Positions
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Assistant
Professor in Experimental Psychology, NBU
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Director
of the Cognitive Science Program, NBU
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Director
of Neuroscience Lab, CEECS, NBU
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Manager
of HiLab – Usability Research, CEECS, NBU
Degrees
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PhD in Cognitive Science - New Bulgarian University
PhD thesis ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma Game: Cognitive Aspects of Judgment and Decision
Making’
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MSc in Marketing 0 University of National and World Economics
Master thesis ‘The Psychology of Advertising’
Research interests
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Decision
making
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Game
theory
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Art perception
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Usability,
human-computer interaction
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Consumer
behaviour
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Eye-tracking
studies
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Physiological
signals
Projects
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SF-HEAT: A
Sustainable
Framework
for Higher Education in Aeronautical
Technologies, financed by the EC, TEMPUS (2010-2012) - researcher
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RASCALLI:
Responsive Artificial Situated Cognitive Agents Living and Learning on the
Internet, financed by the EC, 6th Framework Programme (2005-2008) - researcher
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WELKOM:
Work with E-learning and Knowledge Operational Management, financed by the EC,
Leonardo Da Vinci Programme (2004-2007) - researcher
Membership
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Cognitive
Science society
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EuCog
II - 2nd European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems,
Interaction and Robotics
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COST
2102 - European Science Foundation (ESF) funded Research Network: Cross-Modal
Analysis of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication
Contact information
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
New Bulgarian University
21 Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1618 Bulgaria
phone: (+3592) 8110416
fax: (+3592) 8110421
e-mail: ehristova@cogs.nbu.bg
Publications
Hristova, E., & Grinberg, M. (accepted). Multi-Modal Analysis of Decision Making in the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game.
Proceedings of the WIRN 2010: COST 2102 Special session.
Hristova, E., Georgieva, S. & Grinberg, M. (2011).
Top-Down Influences on Eye-Movements During Painting Perception: The Effect of Task and Titles.
In: A. Esposito et al. (Eds.): COST 2102 Int. Training School 2010 (Toward
Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces: Theoretical and
Practical Issues), LNCS 6456, pp. 104--115. Springer, Heidelberg.
Grinberg, M., Hristova E., & Lalev, E. (2010) Models for cooperative decisions in prisoner’s
dilemma, In Nefti, S. & Gray, J. (eds.).
Advances in Cognitive Systems, IET, London, pp. 169-207.
Hristova, E. & Grinberg, M. (2010). Testing Two Explanations for the
Disjunction Effect in Prisoner’s Dilemma Games: Complexity and Quasi-Magical
Thinking. Proceedings of the 32th Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society. Cognitive Science Society
Hristova, E., Gerganov, A., Georgieva, S. &
Todorova, E. (2010). Eye-Movements of
Dyslexic Children Reading in Regular Orthography: Exploring Word Frequency and Length Effects.
Proceedings of the 32th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Cognitive Science Society.
Hristova, E. & Grinberg, M. (2010). How we look at paintings: the influence of
the viewer’s task. 4rd International Conference on Cognitive Science,
extended abstract.
Hristova, E., Grinberg, M., & Lalev, E. (2009). Biosignal based emotion analysis of
human-agent interactions. In Esposito, A. & Vich, R. (Eds.). Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and
Facial expressions,
LNAI 5641, pp. 63-75, Springer-Verlag Berlin
Heidelberg.
Grinberg, M. & Hristova, E. (2009). SARL:
A Computational Reinforcement Learning Model with Selective Attention. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.
Hristova, E., Gerganov, A., Todorova, E. (2008). Eye-movements in Reading: Length and
Frequency Effects in 9-12 years old children. Proceedings of Second
European Congress of Early Prevention in Children with Verbal Communication
Disorders
Hristova, E., & Grinberg, M. (2008). Disjunction
effect in prisoner's dilemma: Evidences from an eye-tracking study. In B.
C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.
1225-1230). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Grinberg,
M. & Hristova, E. (2007). Is Cooperation in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma
Game Due to Social Interaction? EuroCogSci07: The second European Cognitive
Science Conference, Delphi, Greece, May 23-27.
Grinberg, M. &
Hristova E. (2007). The role of Usability testing in an integrated approach
to CAT deployment: Experience from the WELKOM project, 3rd International
Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), 3-6 March,
2007 Barcelona, Spain.
Grinberg,
M., Hristova, E., & Popova, M. (2006). Applicability of Eye-Tracking Information Acquisition Methods for
Studying the Strategy Dynamics in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Game.
CogSci 2006, The 28th Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, July 26-29, Position paper in the
workshop: What have eye movements told us so far, and
what is next.
Grinberg,
M. & Hristova, E. (2006). Cooperation in
the PD game: Effects of the available information. Proceedings
of the second biennial conference on cognitive science,
Hristova,
Å. & Grinberg, M., (2005) Information
Acquisition in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Game: An Eye-Tracking Study. Proceedings of the
XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Elbraum, NJ.
Hristova,
E. & Grinberg, M.,
(2005) Investigation of Context Effects
in Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Game. In: Dey, A.,
Kokinov, B., Leake, D., Turner, R. (Eds.) Modeling and Using Context. Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), vol. 3554, Springer Verlag.
Hristova, Å. & Grinberg, M., (2005). Eye-tracking applications in decision-making research. Proceedings of the
Balkan Conference of young scientists,
Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Grinberg, M., Hristova, E., Popova,
M., & Haltakov, V. (2005). Strategies
in Playing Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Game: An
Information Acquisition Study. In: Kokinov, B. (ed.) Advances in Cognitive
Economics. Sofia, NBU Press.
Hristova, E. &
Grinberg, M., (2004)
Context Effects on Scale Formation in the
Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Games. Proceedings of the First European
conference in Cognitive Economics ECCE1,
Conference presentations
Hristova,
E. & Grinberg, M. (2010). Skin-conductance as a tool to assess emotions during decision making.
COST 2102 Conference on Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment: the Processing Issues.
September 2010, Budapest, Hungary, talk.
Hristova, E. &
Grinberg, M. (2010). Biosignals and decision
making. COST
2102 Special Session inside the 20th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, May 2010, Vietri-sul-Mare, Italy, talk.
Grinberg, M.,
Hristova, E., & Georgieva, S. (2009). Looking at paintings: The influence of titles. 15th European Conference on Eye Movements, abstract, talk.
Hristova, E., & Grinberg, M. (2008). Investigation
of the Players’s Selective Attention in the Prisonner’s Dilemma Game. 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Science,
Moscow, June 20-26, Proceedings, p. 62, extended abstract, talk.
Kuzmova., G., Hristova, E., & Grinberg, M.
(2008). Effects of action orientation on
coping with negativity in prisoners dilemma game playing, Cogsci 2008, Washington, July 22-26, proceedings, abstract,
poster
Popova, M., Hristova, E., & Grinberg, M.
(2007). Comparison of two process tracing methods in iterated Prisoner's
Dilemma game, 14th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), 19-23
August 2007, Potsdam, Germany, abstract, poster.
Grinberg, M. &
Hristova E. (2007). SARL: A Computational Reinforcement Learning Model with
Selective Attention, 14th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM),
19-23 August 2007, Potsdam, Germany, abstract
Hristova
E., Gerganov, A. & Grinberg M. (2007). How users adapt to new web
applications: Evidence from eye-tracking studies, Symposium: Eye tracking
as a scientific key to the future of usability research, the 14th European
Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), 19-23 August 2007, Potsdam, Germany,
abstract, talk
Gerganov, A.,
Hristova, Å., Hristova, M. & Shahbazyan,
L. (2007). Can verbs make us look up or down?, 14th European Conference
on Eye Movements (ECEM), 19-23 August 2007, Potsdam, Germany, abstract, poster
Hristova, E. (2007)
Usability testing during the whole cycle of CAT deployment: case studies in
three companies, 26th European congress on Psychology, 3-6 July 2007,
Prague, Czech Republic, invited simposium
Hristova, E.
(2007). Measuring attention to ads and brands: eye-tracking studies.,
Workshop on The Semiotic Study of Brands. 13th Early fall school in semiotics “Sociosemiotics”, EFSS’2007, 8-18 September 2007, Sozopol, Bulgaria
Dimitrov,
R., Hristova, E., Grinberg, M. & Trifonova, M. (2007). Semantic Structure of Emotion Concepts
in Patients with Schizophrenia., Poster presented at 9th ECNP Regional
Meeting, Sofia, Bulgaria, 27 – 29 April 2007.
Grinberg,
M. & Hristova, E. (2007). Usability and Educational Efficiency of CAT
Systems., Symposium presentation at Training Fair AUKERA, Irun, Spain, 26
April 2007.
Grinberg,
M. & Hristova, E. (2006). Evolution of
conceptual spaces, 12th
Grinberg, M., Hristova, E., Gerganov, E.,
& Djalev L. (2006). Developing an Integrated Methodology for
CAT System Deployment (The WELKOM Project), 26th International Congress of
Applied Psychology, July 16-21,
Grinberg, M. &
Hristova, E. (2006).Usability Testing for Efficient
Development of CAT Systems, 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology, July
16-21, Athens, Greece.
Grinberg,
M., Gerganov, E., Hristova, E., & Pavlova, R. (2005). Evolution of concept maps, ESF Exploratory Workshop on UNDERSTANDING
THE DYNAMICS OF KNOWLEDGE, 17-19 November 2005, CertosadiPontignano,
Siena, Italy, talk.
Hristova, E.&Grinberg, M., (2005) Investigation of
Context Effects in Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Game. In: Dey, A., Kokinov, B., Leake, D.,
Turner, R. (Eds.) Modeling and Using Context. Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), vol.
3554, Springer Verlag. pp. 183-196