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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 2025

Notes on: What makes a good project?

In 2025, we expect there will be NNN students, so XX project teams of 6. We aim to advertise at least YY design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.

Confirmed design briefs for 2025

(none yet confirmed)

Projects under discussion

Design briefs considered in 2024 that might be developed

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

Future preparation - design briefs for 2026

(none yet proposed for 2026)

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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-==Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2014==
+==Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2021==
-This page currently lists design briefs under development - all content is to be considered as 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.
+This page currently lists design briefs under development. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome, to group-project@cl.cam.ac.uk
-===New clients recruited for 2014===
+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.
-* [[altfusion]]
+==Intellectual property==
-* [[last.fm]]
+Notes on [[Intellectual property]]
-* [[Epistora]]
+==Client briefing==
-* [[Dovetailed]]
+Information on [[Logistics for Clients]]
-* [[Rangespan]]
+Information for students, and course history: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects
-===Potential clients from 2013 that were not offered===
+Information for [[Directors of Studies]]
-* [[Netcraft]]
+Information for the [[Coordinators]]
-* [[Neul.com]]
+==Management timetable for 2023==
-* [[Google]]
+Master timetable for the course:
+https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/teaching/part-ib/group-projects/important-dates
-* [[Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division]]
+==Work in progress - design briefs for 2025==
-* [[Palantir Technologies]]
+Notes on: [[What makes a good project?]]
-* [[Morgan Stanley]]
+In 2025, we expect there will be NNN students, so XX project teams of 6. We aim to advertise at least YY design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.
-* [[Privacy International]]
+===Confirmed design briefs for 2025===
-===Potential projects from 2013 that were not offered===
+(none yet confirmed)
-* [[Fix the past with Raspberry Pi]]
+===Projects under discussion===
-* [[Transparent public identity]]
+* [[Navigating Natural Performance]]
+* [[Living Salad Bar]]
+* [[Dignified Distributed Work]]
+* [[The Carbon Eye]]
+* [[ResponsibleAncestry.com]]
+* [[Guitar tab2hand]]
-* [[Raspberry Pi orchestra]]
-* [[Infect your friends]]
+===Design briefs considered in 2024 that might be developed===
-* [[Mashup tutorial builder]]
+# [[The Big Chill]]
+# [[Future Health and Fitness]]
+# [[AfroInsight]]
+# [[Leadership Transition Simulator]]
+# [[Environmental Value Added]]
+# [[Just Maps]]
+# [[Non-WEIRD Data Science]]
-===Projects offered in 2013 not assigned to groups===
-* [[Touch screen prototyping at school]]
-* [[Measuring glass-to-glass video-conference latency]]
+===Potential clients for 2025===
-* [[The Poet Laureate's web thresholds]]
+* [[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
-* [[Countryside web server]]
-* [[Science exhibit interaction adviser]]
+==Future preparation - design briefs for 2026==
-* [[Personal status server]]
+(none yet proposed for 2026)
+===Incubator and network contacts===
-==Management timetable==
+* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
+* [[Barn4]]
+* [[Ideaspace]]
+* [[Emma Salgard Cunha]] - humanities at Cambridge Enterprise
+* [[Nicola Buckley]] - policy fellows at CSaP
-http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/timetable.html
+===Other client discussions (last updated 2023)===
-==Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2013==
+* [[SMARTRI Indonesia]]
+* [[Mark Gotham]]
-===2013 projects have now been closed===
+* [[Daniel Hall]]
+* [[London Stock Exchange Group]]
-===Number of groups in 2013===
+* Neil Walker
+* [[Milk and More]]
-We expect 80 students to participate this year - these will probably be arranged into 14 groups
+* [[Jane Street]]
-- 10 with 6 members, and 4 with 5 members. We plan to offer at least 16 design briefs - preferably
+* [[Fair Finance]]
-or 18 - to allow for some student choice, technical lossage or client withdrawal.
+* [[The Fusion Works]]
+* [[Frontier]]
-Subsequent note - two of the design briefs can only be implemented in the C# language. We can't require students to learn C#, so these projects cannot proceed if we don't get a full team of volunteers. This means we can't count those two as full contributors to the above target, so new target is 19/20.
+* [[Amazon]]
+* [[Dovetailed]]
-==Student briefing booklet 2013==
+* [[JP Morgan]]
+* [[Centre for Policy Futures]]
-http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1213.pdf
+* [[Gardin]]
+* [[ICCCAD]]
-==Video of final presentations from 2013==
+* [[Antobot]]
+* [[Morgan Stanley]]
-http://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1435486
+* [[Curriculum for Life]]
+* [[RSPB]]
-Useful examples of project formats - a set of design briefs from a previous year:
+* [[BigPay]]
-http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/2010-design-briefs.html
+* [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
+* [[University Information Services]]
-==Confirmed design briefs (20 confirmed, 19 or 20 wanted)==
-* [[Laser cutting round boxes from square sheets]]
-* [[Touch screen prototyping at school]]
+===Development notes carried forward from 2021===
-* [[Measuring glass-to-glass video-conference latency]]
+* [[Frontier]] - second project
+* [[NIAB]] - second project
+* [[Informetis]] - topic discussed
+* [[Giving Voice to Digital Democracies]] - topic suggested, no response
+* [[ARM]] - contact identified, but no topic
-* [[Reliable cycle-aware traffic light]]
+===Other clients from 2021===
-* [[Scrobble Exchange: A massively multiplayer game]]
+* [[MathWorks]]
-* [[Safer social media]]
+* [[Boeing]]
+* [[TechWolf]]
+* [[DX Analytics]]
+* [[Umbrella Analytics]]
+* [[Lyzeum Ltd]]
+* [[Broadcom]] - all contact emails now bounce
-* [[Personal/national mood tracker]]
+==[[Previous ideas that have not been used]]==
-* [[The Poet Laureate's web thresholds]]
-* [[Countryside web server]]
+* [[Calendar Dialogue]] - [[Amazon]]
+* [[Auto-Emoji]]
+* [[Archaeological databases]]
+* [[The Headless Bicycle]]
+* [[Emo Face]]
+* Character Locomotion Middleware - [[Frontier]]
+* Automatic accessibility assessor - [[Frontier]]
+* City generation - [[Frontier]]
-* [[Race the wild]]
+==Potential clients that did not proceed, but could be considered in future==
-* [[Password and privacy protection with Pi]]
+* 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]]
-* [[From Hogwarts to hackers]]
+==Archived records of previous years==
-* [[A platform for live online modding]]
+===2024===
-* [[Hashtag-FollowTheMarket]]
+* [[2024 list]] of design briefs
+* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/zeCRJYL3suw?si=9TxvJ62LGnVbKHGN
-* [[Science exhibit interaction adviser]]
+===2023===
-* [[Personal status server]]
+* [[2023 list]] of design briefs
+* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/WcITCNXbEzM?si=HVz1Ag9u2OgkCXbJ
-* [[Rule-tris introduction to programming]]
+===2022===
-* [[Terabyte threat analysis]]
+* [[2022 list]] of design briefs
+* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/9xs5f6csNiQ?si=pPKhBpp6cJCGnc2c
+* [[2022 - final list of clients]]
-Two C# projects:
+===2021===
-* [[Friend meeting/tracking application for the Elderly]]
+* [[2021 list]] of design briefs
+* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/Wf7zOcZCRTo?si=wCaGdDI9NsChLE58
-* [[Cycle path mapping with a custom hardware platform]]
+* [[2021 - final list of clients]]
-==Clients confirmed with completed design briefs==
-* [[Frontier]]
-* [[Jeff Patmore, Engineering Design Centre]]
+===2020===
-* [[IBM]]
+* 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
-* [[Kettles Yard Gallery]]
+===2019===
-* [[Engineering Design Centre]]
+* 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]]
-* [[Microsoft Research]]
+===2018===
-* [[Microsoft Research Cambridge (2 projects)]]
+* 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]]
-* [[Cisco]]
+===2017===
-* [[Nigel Day, ENEA]]
+* 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]]
-* [[Last.fm]]
+===2016===
-* [[VisualDNA]]
+* Student briefing booklet 2016: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1516.pdf
+* Video of presentations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxcEQE4FigU&list=PLstyePOvf2d2QbiVFI4naska1n4G0fhSW
+* [[2016 list]] of design briefs
+* [[2016 - final list of clients]]
-* [[Peter Cowley]]
+===2015===
-* [[United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre]]
+* Student briefing booklet 2015: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1415.pdf
+* Video of presentations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d0cPplAB3DxHoaJC6hTYomP
+* [[2015 list]] of design briefs
+* [[2015 - final list of clients]]
-* [[David Rubin, Bloomberg]]
+===2014===
-* [[Cambridge Science Centre]]
+* Student briefing booklet 2014: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1314.pdf
+* Video of presentations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d2A3vWW4DkEGIAUIm4T0fg6
+* [[2014 - final list of design briefs]]
+* [[2014 - final list of clients]]
-* [[Qualcomm]]
+===2013===
-* [[BT]]
+* Student briefing booklet 2013: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1213.pdf
+* Video of presentations: http://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1435486
+* [[2013 - final list of design briefs]]
+* [[2013 - final list of clients]]
-==Not proceeding in the current year==
+==Selected design briefs from earlier years==
+* [[2010]]
+* [[2009]]
+* [[2008]]
+* [[2006]]
+==Projects that have been offered, but not assigned to groups==
-===Wiki documentation===
+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!
-* [http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/managedwiki/ Managed Wiki Service]
+* 2019: [[Flyathlon (2019 version)]], [[Robot Death Watch]], [[Visual Pick and Place]]
-* To manage groups of users see [[Special:UserManagement]]
+* 2018: [[Citizen Speed Safety]], [[Every Car in Cambridge]]
-* MediaWiki [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide]
+* 2017: [[Energy with Social Conscience]], [[Science for AD2500]], [[Surgery in the Cloud]]
+* 2016: [[Pocket Brain Surgeon]], [[Reducing food waste with IoT]], [[The Busking Bus-Stop]], [[Safer Chicken from Farm to Fork]]
+* 2015: [[Reinfection Monitor]], [[Online Identity for the Base of the Pyramid]], [[Audio Websites on Smartphones]]
+* 2014: [[Locally Augmented Retail]], [[Set Builder]], [[Employability Coach]], [[Dance Practice Assistant]], [[History Scraper]]
+* 2013: [[Touch screen prototyping at school]], [[Measuring glass-to-glass video-conference latency]], [[The Poet Laureate's web thresholds]], [[Countryside web server]], [[Science exhibit interaction adviser]], [[Personal status server]]