How the inclusion of design principles contribute to the development of social robots

Knowledge about how social robots should be designed is fragmented, and there is currently limited discussion around developing a consistent body of knowledge to describe the design process of these social machines. This paper describes eleven design principles for the development of interactions between humans and robots including programming practices, characteristics of robots as products, interactive behaviours, and even moral values for users. We draw inspiration from the development and design practices of a range of interactive systems and several fields of design that inform the interdisciplinary potential of social robotics. Finally, we propose the empirical validation of these design principles in future work.