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Revision as of 15:05, 5 October 2020
Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2020
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 2021
Master timetable for the course (which should be consistent with front page of the briefing booklet) will be available from here: (currently waiting for update - the linked page shows timetable for 2020. Substantial change will be required for Covid regulations, and the number of client meetings will be increased from 3 to 4) http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/timetable.html
Work in progress - design briefs for 2021
Notes on: What makes a good project?
In 2021, we expect there will be 115 students, so 15 project teams of 6 and 5 teams of 5. We aim to advertise at least 22 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.
Confirmed projects for 2021
- (none confirmed)
Potential clients for 2021
- Digital Boost
- RSPB
- Dovetailed
- Enquiry via Quentin S-F from the Met.
- MathWorks
- NIAB
- Saaras Mehan, on behalf of Azure Sphere team at Microsoft in Cambridge
- Michael Malley, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children / Medecins Sans Frontieres
- Sara Turkentine <sara@gearset.com>
- Alex Healing, BT <alex.healing@bt.com>
- Ideaspace
- NHS Digital
- Doug Macfarlane/Emma Salgard Cunha
- Dora Musci <mdora@amazon.co.uk>, Chris Power <chrpw@amazon.co.uk>, Amazon (London)
Potential clients brought forward from 2020
- Proposed new mechanism: Self-selected project
Previous ideas that have not been used
- Character Locomotion Middleware - Frontier
- Automatic accessibility assessor - Frontier
- City generation - Frontier
Potential clients that did not proceed, but could be considered in future
- 2020: Argon Design
- 2019: Smart Cambridge, Mindi, 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
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
2019
- Student briefing booklet 2019: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1819.pdf
- 2019 list of design briefs
- 2019 - final list of clients
2018
- Student briefing booklet 2018: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1718.pdf
- 2018 list of design briefs
- 2018 - final list of clients
2017
- Student briefing booklet 2017: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1617.pdf
- 2017 list of design briefs
- 2017 - final list of clients
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
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!
- 2019: Flyathlon, 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
