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==Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2020==
==Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2025==


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


==Management timetable for 2020==
==Management timetable for 2025==


Master timetable for the course (which should be consistent with front page of the briefing booklet) is available from here:
Master timetable for the course:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/timetable.html
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/teaching/part-ib/group-projects/important-dates


==Work in progress - expressions of interest for 2021==
==Work in progress - design briefs for 2026==
 
* Sara Turkentine <sara@gearset.com>
* Alex Healing <alex.healing@bt.com>
 
==Work in progress - design briefs for 2020==


Notes on: [[What makes a good project?]]
Notes on: [[What makes a good project?]]


In 2020, we estimate there will be 130 students, so about 22 project teams of 6. We aim to advertise at least 24 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.
In 2026, we expect there will be ??? students, so ?? project teams (?? teams of 6 and ?? teams of 5). We aim to advertise at least ?? design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.


===Confirmed projects (14 to date, 10 to come)===
===Proposed design briefs for 2026===


* [[Activity Analysis from Smart Meter Data]]
# [[Drawing Machines]]


* [[Africas Voices Foundation]] [draft]
===Candidates under discussion===


* [[Automatic Assessment of R Code]]
* [[Who Pays for Roads?]]
* [[Software Inconsistency Resolver]]
* [[ARM]]
* [[Frontier]]
* Jack Ashby, Zoology museum
* Chris Pointon, Green Economy Infrastructure
* Simon Pulman-Jones, Evinova / Astra Zeneca
* Leontien Talboom, University Library


* [[Green Eyes]]


* [[Trading Assistant]]
===Projects under discussion===


* [[Automating the collection of crop canopy data to improve crop management]]
# [[Sustainable Electronic Recycling]]
# [[Semantic Refactoring]]


* [[Collecting farm-sourced data on pest and disease pressure]]
===Design briefs suggested to several potential clients===


* [[Supervisor Matching System]]
# [[The Carbon Eye]]
# [[ResponsibleAncestry.com]]
# [[Guitar tab2hand]]
# [[Who Pays for Roads?]]


* [[Online Ticking Markbook]]
===Design briefs considered in 2024 that might be developed===


* [[Workout Help with Android and WearOS]]
# [[Dignified Distributed Work]]
# [[The Big Chill]]
# [[Future Health and Fitness]]
# [[AfroInsight]]
# [[Leadership Transition Simulator]]
# [[Environmental Value Added]]
# [[Just Maps]]
# [[Non-WEIRD Data Science]]
# [[Living Salad Bar]]


* [[Remote Animal Recovery Monitoring]]


* [[Travelling Businesswoman Problem]]
===Potential clients for 2025===


* [[Support Sustainable Wildlife Trade]]
Final [[2025 list]]


* [[Ecosystem game/visualisation]]
* [[Alder Hey Children's Hospital]]
* [[Embecosm]]
* [[SEAT]]
* [[Anthony Harris]]
* [[Rivos Systems]]
* [[AMD]]
* [[Raspberry Pi Foundation]]
* Katy Jordan, EdTech Hub
* Adham Ashton-Butt, [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* Adam Devenish, RSPB
* Maximilian Ge
* [[Matthew Postgate]]


===Potential clients for 2020===


====Proposal in development====
===Incubator and network contacts===


* [[ARM]] in collaboration with [[Fitzwilliam Museum]]
* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
* [[Barn4]]
* [[Ideaspace]]
* [[Emma Salgard Cunha]] - humanities at Cambridge Enterprise
* [[Nicola Buckley]] - policy fellows at CSaP


* [[Ocado]]
===Other client discussions (last updated 2023)===


* [[SMARTRI Indonesia]]
* [[Mark Gotham]]
* [[Daniel Hall]]
* [[London Stock Exchange Group]]
* Neil Walker
* [[Milk and More]]
* [[Jane Street]]
* [[Fair Finance]]
* [[Fair Finance]]
 
* [[The Fusion Works]]
* [[Frontier]]
* [[Amazon]]
* [[Dovetailed]]
* [[Dovetailed]]
====Proposal pending====
* [[UNEP-WCMC]]
* [[MSR]]
====Clients passing to 2021====
* [[BT]]
* [[Ideaspace]]
====Proposal sought====
* [[NIAB]]
* [[Cambridge Mathematics]]
* [[Hamilton Kerr Institute]]
* [[Oodle]]
* [[Thales]]
* [[JP Morgan]]
* [[JP Morgan]]
* [[Centre for Policy Futures]]
* [[Gardin]]
* [[ICCCAD]]
* [[Antobot]]
* [[Morgan Stanley]]
* [[Curriculum for Life]]
* [[RSPB]]
* [[BigPay]]
* [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* [[University Information Services]]


* [[Sainsbury Laboratory]]
===Development notes carried forward from 2021===


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


* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
===Other clients from 2021===


* [[Collusion]]
* [[MathWorks]]


* Proposed new mechanism: [[Self-selected]] project
* [[Boeing]]
* [[TechWolf]]
* [[DX Analytics]]
* [[Umbrella Analytics]]
* [[Lyzeum Ltd]]
* [[Broadcom]] - all contact emails now bounce


==[[Previous ideas that have not been used]]==
==[[Previous ideas that have not been used]]==
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* [[Calendar Dialogue]] - [[Amazon]]
* [[Calendar Dialogue]] - [[Amazon]]
* [[Auto-Emoji]]
* [[Auto-Emoji]]
* [[Archaeological databases]]
* [[Archaeological databases]]
* [[The Headless Bicycle]]
* [[The Headless Bicycle]]
* [[Emo Face]]
* [[Emo Face]]
* Character Locomotion Middleware - [[Frontier]]
* Character Locomotion Middleware - [[Frontier]]
* Automatic accessibility assessor - [[Frontier]]
* Automatic accessibility assessor - [[Frontier]]
* City generation - [[Frontier]]
* City generation - [[Frontier]]


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


===2020===
* 2022: [[Autodesk]]
 
* 2021: [[FetoLife]], [[Oodle]], [[NHS Digital]], [[Jump Trading]], [[Microsoft Africa Research Institute]]
* [[Argon Design]]
* 2020: [[Argon Design]], [[Gearset]], [[Thales]], [[Sainsbury Laboratory]]
 
* 2019: [[Smart Cambridge]], [[Mindi]], [[Fauna and Flora International]], [[Fusepump]], [[Investre]],
===2019===
* 2018: [[Sparx]], [[Cambridge Consultants]], [[Capita]], [[Nominet Trust]], [[University Information Services]], [[Sport England]]
 
* 2017: [[BT]], [[Palantir]], [[Elm Partners]], [[Lucid / Cycorp]], [[Microsoft Research]]
* [[Smart Cambridge]]
* 2016: [[Care Quality Commission]], [[King Digital Entertainment]], [[The Fusion Works]]
 
* 2015: [[Thales]], [[Steve Wade]], [[Cambridge Humanitarian Centre]]
* [[Mindi]]
* 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]]
* [[Fauna and Flora International]]
 
* [[Fusepump]]
 
* [[Investre]]
 
* [[Netcraft]]
 
===2018===
 
* [[Sparx]]
 
* [[Cambridge Consultants]]
 
* [[Capita]]
 
* [[Nominet Trust]]
 
* [[University Information Services]]
 
* [[Microsoft]] proposing [[Sport England]] application
 
===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===
 
* [[Netcraft]]
 
* [[Neul.com]]
 
* [[Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division]]
 
* [[Palantir Technologies]]
 
* [[Privacy International]]


==Archived records of previous years==
==Archived records of previous years==


===2019===
* [[2025 list]] of design briefs and playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d1HSBklMXWbdLd_4T2X8pIT
 
* [[2024 list]] of design briefs and playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeCRJYL3suw&list=PLstyePOvf2d3jOfc6j8cG7CmmVD6LyMe_
* Student briefing booklet 2019: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1819.pdf
* [[2023 list]] of design briefs and playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcITCNXbEzM&list=PLstyePOvf2d2ZvC92BQkpR6WiaiROytev
* [[2019 list]] of design briefs
* [[2022 list]] of design briefs, [[2022 - final list of clients]] and playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xs5f6csNiQ&list=PLstyePOvf2d3oPJOBgNoeA-aPA7lhUIGS
* [[2019 - final list of clients]]
* [[2021 list]] of design briefs, [[2021 - final list of clients]] and playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf7zOcZCRTo&list=PLstyePOvf2d2o9O_K3GEY3wAtbqkkYjPm
 
* [[2020 list]] of design briefs, [[2020 - final list of clients]] (presentations disrupted by Covid-19 - no video). Student briefing booklet 2020: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1920.pdf
===2018===
* [[2019 list]] of design briefs, [[2019 - final list of clients]], briefing booklet http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1819.pdf, playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d39LYQ3YBcdWUdREimYF8e4&si=RHH_jzctWiQchuH8


* Student briefing booklet 2018: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1718.pdf
* 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 list]] of design briefs
* [[2018 - final list of clients]]
* [[2018 - final list of clients]]
===2017===


* Student briefing booklet 2017: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1617.pdf
* 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 list]] of design briefs
* [[2017 - final list of clients]]
* [[2017 - final list of clients]]
===2016===


* Student briefing booklet 2016: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1516.pdf
* Student briefing booklet 2016: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1516.pdf
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* [[2016 list]] of design briefs
* [[2016 list]] of design briefs
* [[2016 - final list of clients]]
* [[2016 - final list of clients]]
===2015===


* Student briefing booklet 2015: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1415.pdf
* Student briefing booklet 2015: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1415.pdf
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* [[2015 list]] of design briefs
* [[2015 list]] of design briefs
* [[2015 - final list of clients]]
* [[2015 - final list of clients]]
===2014===


* Student briefing booklet 2014: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1314.pdf
* Student briefing booklet 2014: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1314.pdf
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* [[2014 - final list of design briefs]]
* [[2014 - final list of design briefs]]
* [[2014 - final list of clients]]
* [[2014 - final list of clients]]
===2013===


* Student briefing booklet 2013: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1213.pdf
* Student briefing booklet 2013: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1213.pdf
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==Projects that have been offered, but not assigned to groups==
==Projects that have been offered, but not assigned to groups==


===Projects offered in 2019 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!
 
* [[Flyathlon]]
 
* [[Robot Death Watch]]
 
* [[Visual Pick and Place]]
 
===Projects offered in 2018 not assigned to groups===
 
* [[Citizen Speed Safety]]
 
* [[Every Car in Cambridge]]
 
===Projects offered in 2017 not assigned to groups===
 
* [[Energy with Social Conscience]]
 
* [[Science for AD2500]]
 
* [[Surgery in the Cloud]]
 
===Projects offered in 2016 not assigned to groups===
 
* [[Pocket Brain Surgeon]]
 
* [[Reducing food waste with IoT]]
 
* [[The Busking Bus-Stop]]
 
* [[Safer Chicken from Farm to Fork]]
 
===Projects offered in 2015 not assigned to groups===
 
* [[Reinfection Monitor]]
 
* [[Online Identity for the Base of the Pyramid]]
 
* [[Audio Websites on Smartphones]]
 
===Projects offered in 2014 not assigned to groups===
 
* [[Locally Augmented Retail]]
 
* [[Set Builder]]
 
* [[Employability Coach]]
 
* [[Dance Practice Assistant]]
 
* [[History Scraper]]
 
===Projects offered in 2013 not assigned to groups===
 
* [[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]]
* 2019: [[Flyathlon (2019 version)]], [[Robot Death Watch]], [[Visual Pick and Place]]
* 2018: [[Citizen Speed Safety]], [[Every Car in Cambridge]]
* 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]]

Latest revision as of 16:26, 21 April 2025

Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2025

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 2025

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

Work in progress - design briefs for 2026

Notes on: What makes a good project?

In 2026, we expect there will be ??? students, so ?? project teams (?? teams of 6 and ?? teams of 5). We aim to advertise at least ?? design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.

Proposed design briefs for 2026

  1. Drawing Machines

Candidates under discussion


Projects under discussion

  1. Sustainable Electronic Recycling
  2. Semantic Refactoring

Design briefs suggested to several potential clients

  1. The Carbon Eye
  2. ResponsibleAncestry.com
  3. Guitar tab2hand
  4. Who Pays for Roads?

Design briefs considered in 2024 that might be developed

  1. Dignified Distributed Work
  2. The Big Chill
  3. Future Health and Fitness
  4. AfroInsight
  5. Leadership Transition Simulator
  6. Environmental Value Added
  7. Just Maps
  8. Non-WEIRD Data Science
  9. Living Salad Bar


Potential clients for 2025

Final 2025 list


Incubator and network contacts

Other client discussions (last updated 2023)

Development notes carried forward from 2021

Other clients from 2021

Previous ideas that have not been used

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

Archived records of previous years

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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