Establishing the Foundations of Emotional Intelligence in Care Companion Robots to Mitigate Agitation Among High-Risk Patients With Dementia: Protocol for an Empathetic Patient-Robot Interaction Study

Adeline Nyamathi   ¹ , ANP, PhD ;   Nikil Dutt   ² , PhD ;   Jung-Ah Lee   ¹ , PhD ;   Amir M Rahmani   ¹ , MBA, PhD ;   Mahkameh Rasouli   ¹ , BSc ;   Donna Krogh   ³ , PhD ;   Erik Krogh   ³ , PhD ;   David Sultzer   ⁴ , MD ;   Humayun Rashid   ⁵ , DBA ;   Hamza Liaqat   ⁵ , BSc ;   Riyam Jawad   ⁵ , MS ;   Farhan Azhar   ⁵ , BSc ;   Ali Ahmad   ⁵ , MS ;   Bilal Qamar   ⁵ , BSc ;   Taha Yasin Bhatti   ⁵ , BSc ;   Chet Khay   ⁶ , MSN, FNP ;   Jocelyn Ludlow   ¹ , PhD ;   Lisa Gibbs   ⁷ , MD ;   Julie Rousseau   ⁷ , PhD ;   Mahyar Abbasian   ² , MSc ;   Yutong Song   ² , BS ;   Cheonkam Jeong   ^{1, 8} , PhD ;   Sabine Brunswicker   ⁸ , PhD

¹ Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

² Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

³ Smart Forward, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, United States

⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, and Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

⁵ NaviGAIT, Irvine, CA, United States

⁶ Amore Senior Living, Laguna Niguel, CA, United States

⁷ School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

⁸ Research Center for Digital Innovation, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States