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Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2018

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

Management timetable for 2018

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/timetable.html

Work in progress - design briefs for 2018

Notes on: What makes a good project?

We expect to have 99 students registered for Part 1B, so plan to have 17 project teams (3 teams of 5, and 14 teams of 6). We aim to advertise at least 19 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.

2018 design briefs - 9 confirmed, 10 to come

• Energy Budget

• Citizen Speed Safety

• Autonomous highway system

• Wearable house control

• Opposing Views

• Audible Appliances

• Real-time AI research

• The Adaptive Web

• Pigment Analysis

Draft ideas for 2018 - 6 in progress

• VR AI Ping Pong Trainer

• Sustainable Gaming

• Mixed-reality PDF editor

• Auto-Emoji

• Anthropometrics Today

• Mapping Addenbrooke's

Expected clients for 2018 - likely, but not confirmed

• Smart Cambridge

• JP Morgan

• Satavia (with Microsoft)

Possible clients for 2018 - still looking for ideas

• Argon Design

• Alistair Stead

• Capita

• Cambridge Conservation Initiative

Clients considered for 2018, but unlikely to proceed

• Palantir

• Collusion

• Obex Technologies

• Lucid / Cycorp

• Care Quality Commission

• Nominet Trust

• University Information Services

• Microsoft proposing Sport England application

• Mindi

• Investre

• King Digital Entertainment

• The Fusion Works

• Microsoft Research

• Fauna and Flora International

• Fusepump

• Elm Partners

• Jagex

Clients for 2018 with drafts already in progress, promoted to project list

• IMC

• Frontier

• Amazon

• Leapian

• Cambridge Museums

• Sparx

Clients with projects confirmed for 2018

• Boeing

• Informetis

Unlikely to proceed

• Archaeological databases

Confirmed design briefs for 2017

• Full 2017 list of projects as a single page
• 2017 - final list of clients

Potential clients that did not proceed

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

2016

• 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

2015

• 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

2014

• 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

2013

• 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

Selected design briefs from earlier years

• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2006

Projects that have been offered, but not assigned to groups

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