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Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2021

This page currently lists design briefs under development. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome, to group-project@cl.cam.ac.uk

All content on this site has draft status, subject to confirmation by both group project coordinators and project clients. There is no guarantee that these projects will be offered to students, either in the form described here, or at all.

Intellectual property

Notes on Intellectual property

Client briefing

Information on Logistics for Clients

Information for students, and course history: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects

Information for Directors of Studies

Information for the Coordinators

Management timetable for 2023

Master timetable for the course: https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/teaching/part-ib/group-projects/important-dates

Work in progress - design briefs for 2024

Notes on: What makes a good project?

In 2024, we expect there will be 138 students, so 23 project teams of 6. We aim to advertise at least 25 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.

Confirmed design briefs for 2024

Confirmed clients for 2024 (partial list)

Other design briefs considered for 2024

Future preparation - design briefs for 2025

Projects to consider in 2025

Potential clients for 2025

SEAT
Anthony Harris
Rivos Systems
JAID
AMD
Raspberry Pi Foundation
Katy Jordan, EdTech Hub
Adham Ashton-Butt, British Trust for Ornithology
Adam Devenish, RSPB
Maximilian Ge

Incubator and network contacts

Centre for Global Equality
Barn4
Ideaspace
Emma Salgard Cunha - humanities at Cambridge Enterprise
Nicola Buckley - policy fellows at CSaP

Other client discussions (last updated 2023)

Development notes carried forward from 2021

Frontier - second project
NIAB - second project
Informetis - topic discussed
Giving Voice to Digital Democracies - topic suggested, no response
ARM - contact identified, but no topic

Other clients from 2021

MathWorks

Boeing
TechWolf
DX Analytics
Umbrella Analytics
Lyzeum Ltd
Broadcom - all contact emails now bounce

Previous ideas that have not been used

Calendar Dialogue - Amazon
Auto-Emoji
Archaeological databases
The Headless Bicycle
Emo Face
Character Locomotion Middleware - Frontier
Automatic accessibility assessor - Frontier
City generation - Frontier

Potential clients that did not proceed, but could be considered in future

2022: Autodesk
2021: FetoLife, Oodle, NHS Digital, Jump Trading, Microsoft Africa Research Institute
2020: Argon Design, Gearset, Thales, Sainsbury Laboratory
2019: Smart Cambridge, Mindi, Fauna and Flora International, Fusepump, Investre,
2018: Sparx, Cambridge Consultants, Capita, Nominet Trust, University Information Services, Sport England
2017: BT, Palantir, Elm Partners, Lucid / Cycorp, Microsoft Research
2016: Care Quality Commission, King Digital Entertainment, The Fusion Works
2015: Thales, Steve Wade, Cambridge Humanitarian Centre
2014: Broadcom, last.fm, Rangespan, John McMillan, Atheon, OpenMarket, Google, Repindex
2013: Neul.com, Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division, Palantir Technologies, Privacy International

Archived records of previous years

2024

2024 list of design briefs
Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/zeCRJYL3suw?si=9TxvJ62LGnVbKHGN

2023

2023 list of design briefs
Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/WcITCNXbEzM?si=HVz1Ag9u2OgkCXbJ

2022

2022 list of design briefs
Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/9xs5f6csNiQ?si=pPKhBpp6cJCGnc2c
2022 - final list of clients

2021

2021 list of design briefs
Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/Wf7zOcZCRTo?si=wCaGdDI9NsChLE58
2021 - final list of clients

2020

Student briefing booklet 2020: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1920.pdf
2020 list of design briefs
2020 - final list of clients
Final presentations disrupted by Covid-19 pandemic - no video

Selected design briefs from earlier years

Projects that have been offered, but not assigned to groups

The usual reason for cancelling a project is that the topic has not attracted sufficient interest from students. It's worth keeping an eye on these, as some topics, or ways of phrasing them, seem less attractive. But fashions change!

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 Information for the [[Coordinators]]
-==Management timetable for 2021==
+==Management timetable for 2023==
 Master timetable for the course:
 https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/teaching/part-ib/group-projects/important-dates
-==Work in progress - design briefs for 2023==
+==Work in progress - design briefs for 2024==
 Notes on: [[What makes a good project?]]
-In 2023, we expect there will be 119 students, so 20 project teams: 19 teams of 6 and 1 team of 5. We aim to advertise at least 22 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.
+In 2024, we expect there will be 138 students, so 23 project teams of 6. We aim to advertise at least 25 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.
-===Confirmed projects for 2023===
+===Confirmed design briefs for 2024===
-# [[Robot Farm Monitor]]
+# [[Acoustic Land Management]]
-# [[Fossil or Future?]]
+# [[Braille Predictive Text]]
-# [[Raspberry Pi Foundation]]
+# [[Climate Foresight]]
-# [[Autonomous Trucking]]
+# [[Component Quest]]
-# [[Signs of our Times]]
+# [[Copilot for Business]]
-# [[Responsible AI Copilot]]
+# [[Creative Writing Coach]]
-# [[Email Diplomacy]]
+# [[Disability Bias Explorer]]
-# [[Genomics for the COVID Endemic]]
+# [[DoS D-Stress]]
-# [[Electric Motor Optimisation]]
+# [[Engaging Everyone]]
-# [[Responsible Construction]]
+# [[Envisioning Nairobi]]
-# [[Likeness Trainer]]
+# [[Heterodox Economic Modeller]]
+# [[Influencing Health]]
+# [[Investment Provenance]]
+# [[Memories Retold]]
+# [[Optimising Music Notation]]
+# [[P2P Social Network]]
+# [[Ramping Up Sustainable Crops]]
+# [[Real-pedia]]
+# [[Supply Chain Resilience]]
+# [[Talking Music]]
+# [[Taste: Movies x Books x Music]]
+# [[Testing for Humans]]
+# [[Visiting the Forest Stream]]
+# [[Wearable Sleep Coach]]
+# [[World Craft]]
-===Clients in discussion for 2023===
+===Confirmed clients for 2024 (partial list)===
-* Konrad Maliszewski, [[Atheon]]
+* [[ClimateInColour]]
-* Tom Hollanek, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
+* [[Cam-AI]]
-* Angus Allen, Volemic
+* [[NIAB]]
+* [[Embecosm]]
+* [[Lee Wilson]]
+* [[Microsoft Research]]
+===Other design briefs considered for 2024===
+# [[The Big Chill]]
+# [[Future Health and Fitness]]
+# [[AfroInsight]]
+# [[Leadership Transition Simulator]]
+# [[Environmental Value Added]]
+# [[Just Maps]]
+# [[Non-WEIRD Data Science]]
+==Future preparation - design briefs for 2025==
+===Projects to consider in 2025===
+* [[Living Salad Bar]]
+* [[Dignified Distributed Work]]
+* [[The Carbon Eye]]
+* [[ResponsibleAncestry.com]]
+* [[Guitar tab2hand]]
+===Potential clients for 2025===
+* [[SEAT]]
+* [[Anthony Harris]]
+* [[Rivos Systems]]
+* [[JAID]]
+* [[AMD]]
+* [[Raspberry Pi Foundation]]
+* Katy Jordan, EdTech Hub
 * Adham Ashton-Butt, [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
-* Robin Bunce / Megan Renoir, Homerton Changemakers
+* Adam Devenish, RSPB
 * Maximilian Ge
-* Adam Devenish, RSPB
-* Neil Walker
-* David Sharp
-* Patrick Wollner
-* [[IMC]] Project 1
-* [[IMC]] Project 2?
-* [[Ab Initio Software]]
-* Steven Raffe two more projects?
-* Contacted Katy Jordan re EdTech Hub
-* Saussan Khalil,[[Kalamna CIC]]
-===Potential design briefs for 2023===
+===Incubator and network contacts===
-# [[Trading Reasons]]
+* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
-# [[Environmental Value Added]]
+* [[Barn4]]
-# [[Auto-Emoji]]
+* [[Ideaspace]]
+* [[Emma Salgard Cunha]] - humanities at Cambridge Enterprise
+* [[Nicola Buckley]] - policy fellows at CSaP
-====Potential clients to contact for 2023====
+===Other client discussions (last updated 2023)===
+* [[SMARTRI Indonesia]]
+* [[Mark Gotham]]
+* [[Daniel Hall]]
+* [[London Stock Exchange Group]]
+* Neil Walker
+* [[Milk and More]]
 * [[Jane Street]]
-* [[London Stock Exchange Group]]
 * [[Fair Finance]]
-* Discussions with [[NIAB]] for 2022 are all [[Barn4]] members
-* [[Milk and More]]
-* [[MQA]]
-===Potential returning clients from 2022===
 * [[The Fusion Works]]
 * [[Frontier]]
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 * [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
 * [[University Information Services]]
-===Incubator and network contacts===
-* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
-* [[Barn4]]
-* [[Ideaspace]]
-* [[Emma Salgard Cunha]] - humanities at Cambridge Enterprise
-* [[Nicola Buckley]] - policy fellows at CSaP
 ===Development notes carried forward from 2021===
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 * [[Informetis]] - topic discussed
 * [[Giving Voice to Digital Democracies]] - topic suggested, no response
-* [[Broadcom]] - all contact emails now bounce
 * [[ARM]] - contact identified, but no topic
@@ Line 116: / Line 145: @@
 * [[MathWorks]]
-* [[Microsoft Research]]
 * [[Boeing]]
 * [[TechWolf]]
@@ Line 122: / Line 151: @@
 * [[Umbrella Analytics]]
 * [[Lyzeum Ltd]]
+* [[Broadcom]] - all contact emails now bounce
 ==[[Previous ideas that have not been used]]==
@@ Line 127: / Line 157: @@
 * [[Calendar Dialogue]] - [[Amazon]]
 * [[Auto-Emoji]]
 * [[Archaeological databases]]
 * [[The Headless Bicycle]]
 * [[Emo Face]]
 * Character Locomotion Middleware - [[Frontier]]
 * Automatic accessibility assessor - [[Frontier]]
 * City generation - [[Frontier]]
@@ Line 156: / Line 179: @@
 ==Archived records of previous years==
+===2024===
+* [[2024 list]] of design briefs
+* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/zeCRJYL3suw?si=9TxvJ62LGnVbKHGN
+===2023===
+* [[2023 list]] of design briefs
+* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/WcITCNXbEzM?si=HVz1Ag9u2OgkCXbJ
 ===2022===
 * [[2022 list]] of design briefs
+* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/9xs5f6csNiQ?si=pPKhBpp6cJCGnc2c
 * [[2022 - final list of clients]]
 ===2021===
-* Presentations from 2021: https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/teaching/part-ib/group-projects/presentations
 * [[2021 list]] of design briefs
+* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/Wf7zOcZCRTo?si=wCaGdDI9NsChLE58
 * [[2021 - final list of clients]]
@@ Line 173: / Line 207: @@
 * [[2020 list]] of design briefs
 * [[2020 - final list of clients]]
+* Final presentations disrupted by Covid-19 pandemic - no video
 ===2019===
 * Student briefing booklet 2019: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1819.pdf
+* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d39LYQ3YBcdWUdREimYF8e4&si=RHH_jzctWiQchuH8
 * [[2019 list]] of design briefs
 * [[2019 - final list of clients]]
@@ Line 183: / Line 219: @@
 * Student briefing booklet 2018: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1718.pdf
+* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d0H15TwI6kEZb38ucaUDshQ&si=fS8uf8Db3PjqguBf
 * [[2018 list]] of design briefs
 * [[2018 - final list of clients]]
@@ Line 189: / Line 226: @@
 * Student briefing booklet 2017: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1617.pdf
+* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d0fbeximiXyWR2gB5KjjjE6&si=dQHg-NFFqSafdtek
 * [[2017 list]] of design briefs
 * [[2017 - final list of clients]]