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• 09:42, 5 November 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Wearable Sleep Coach (Created page with "Client: Alex Venetidis, Terra <alex@tryterra.co> The Terra API unlocks health and fitness data from diverse sources, including popular wearables and fitness apps like Fitbit, Apple Watch, Oura, and 70+ others. Your challenge is to leverage the Terra API to develop an AI coach that advises people on how to improve their sleep habits. The coach can be trained using data already acquired by Terra, and you should have time to test it on yourselves.")
• 10:46, 26 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 2024 list (Created page with "Complete list of design briefs to be advertised to students for 2024 group design projects. (text transcluded from individual project descriptions - click on project title to edit original page) ==A Teaspoon of Video== {{:A Teaspoon of Video}}")
• 08:09, 26 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Component Quest (Created page with "Client: Stephen Devlin <sd2030@cam.ac.uk> The electronics industry faces chip shortages, rising costs, and increasing e-waste. This creates demand for secondhand components, but it can be difficult to identify and value them. Develop a smartphone app that uses AI to identify and value electronic components from images. The app should handle a wide range of components, provide current market value, and link users to a marketplace to buy and sell them.")
• 17:02, 20 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Future Health and Fitness (Created page with "The Terra API unlocks health and fitness data from diverse sources, including popular wearables and fitness apps like Fitbit, Apple Watch, Oura, and 70+ others. Your challenge is to leverage the Terra API to develop an innovative and creative product that enhances the way people engage with health and fitness data. We're looking for an application that does more than track metrics. Your project needs to inspire, motivate, and transform users' health and fitness journey.")
• 18:09, 13 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page The Big Chill (Created page with "The Terra API integrates data from all kinds of wearable devices, in a way that is very attractive for sports enthusiasts and health insurance companies. Is there any future for people who just want a quiet life, perhaps chilling with their cat, drinking beer or knitting socks? Why not use your Apple Watch or Fitbit to make your life more enjoyable rather than setting more and more performance targets? Your goal is to make an application so attractive that everyone will...")
• 15:50, 13 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Influencing Health (Created page with "Client: Lee Wilson, Kavavar <lee.wilson@kavavar.com> Many more people get their news from social media than TV, but much national and international public health policy relies on public broadcasting as the primary channel of communication. Your job is to make a tool that helps reconnect local health emergencies to local influencers who may be motivated to help. This will involve using APIs from Tiktok, Instagram etc, but mapping these against local health statistics in...")
• 15:33, 13 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page P2P Social Network (Created page with "Client: Mick Vermeulen, IMC Social networks are a major part of our lives. The acquisition of Twitter by Musk demonstrates how much influence one person can express by changing the platform to his liking where users have no say in the direction of the platform. Your assignment is to create a peer 2 peer honest social network: a social network that has no central server that anyone can join freely. You'll need to find or define a protocol that allows users to communicate...")
• 15:30, 13 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Supply Chain Resilience (Created page with "Client: Murad Abdulla, IMC Events such as the Covid pandemic and the Ukraine-Russia war highlight inefficiencies in global supply chains, affecting our everyday lives through energy prices, inflation, cost-of-living, unemployment and housing. This project will use publicly available datasets and APIs to build a comprehensive map investigating supply chain choices such as semiconductors for tech via China to the West, oil exports, agricultural product shipments etc. You...")
• 15:21, 13 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Taste: Movies x Books x Music (Created page with "Client: Hrvoje Abramović, IMC <Hrvoje.Abramovic@imc.com> There are many music, movie and book recommendation systems online, but each focuses on a single medium. The goal of this project is to build a web application which, when given a movie or a book, would present a cluster of books, movies and songs that are related to it by often being mentioned online together. It would be cool to see how clusters of “tastes” form and how books, movies and music from the same...")
• 06:39, 12 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Climate Foresight (Created page with "Client: William Jones <william.jones@embecosm.com> Dynamic Causal Modeling is a Bayesian statistical technique for reverse engineering time series data. One of the ongoing challenges in applying such statistical models is how to visualise the multiverse of possible outcomes that the algorithm derives. Your goal is to create an evidence-based visualisation of possible climate futures that allows users to interrogate and compare projections from a complete simplified carb...")
• 07:47, 6 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page World Craft (Created page with "Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Streetview have turned surveillance data into commercial opportunities ranging from Deliveroo to Down My Street. But coverage tends to focus on popular tourist destinations and sponsored business opportunities, rather the presenting real people’s lives and neighbourhoods. Your task is to prototype an infrastructure of an interactive globe, where you can fluidly zoom in to connect to people's "best self", using the verified images th...")
• 07:32, 6 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Real-pedia (Created page with "The training data for AI large language models mixes up Wikipedia articles with ripped-off text from random authors, toxic trolls off social media, and secret prompts from commercial sponsors. Most of this excludes real knowledge of real places, from the girls excluded from education in Afghanistan, to the women who teach their own families all over the world. Your goal is to make an alternative wiki architecture, where the benchmark of knowledge is not who has the most...")
• 15:20, 5 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Acoustic Land Management (Created page with "Client: Adham Ashton-Butt, BTO <adham.ashton-butt@bto.org> Land managers are often responsible for restoration projects, in which they make changes expected to benefit wildlife over time. One very useful source of evidence is acoustic data recordings. This project is intended to create an interactive application that can be used by land managers to visualise, make decisions, monitor, and evaluate their interventions, based on bioacoustic survey data processed through th...")
• 10:29, 5 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Braille Predictive Text (Created page with "Client: Gregory Hargraves, Paige Braille <greg@paigebraille.com> David MacKay’s Dasher was a radical predictive text system where a machine learning language model helped users with disabilities by guiding them to zoom in to more likely possible texts. That’s no use for people with a vision impairment, who can’t see the guidance or easily operate animated graphical interfaces. This is an opportunity to work with a team who have recently augmented the classic mecha...")
• 10:25, 3 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs moved page Continental Health Explorer to AfroInsight (Too close to Disability Bias Explorer)
• 10:21, 3 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Continental Health Explorer (Created page with "Client: Lee Wilson <lee.wilson@kavavar.com> AfroBarometer is a pan-African research network that collects public attitude data on a variety of topics, including health. The World Health Organization (WHO) is interested in using AfroBarometer data to inform its global approaches to health information campaigns. However, the data is currently in a proprietary format and can be difficult to access and use, especially for non-technical users. Challenge: Develop a front-end...")
• 07:07, 2 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Optimising Music Notation (Created page with "Optimising Music Notation Client: Arild Stenberg, Score Designs Group <arildstenberg@gmail.com> The LaTeX typesetting system can be used to render many alternative styles of document from a master text specification. In contrast, music typesetting systems like Sibelius make all music look much the same. Your client has designed an optimised alternative style for music notation that has been found to improve performance. Your task is to define a specification language fo...")
• 16:07, 29 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Dignified Distributed Work (Created page with "Client: Lorraine Charles, Na'amal <lorraine@naamal.org> Na’amal provides refugees and other underrepresented communities training in marketable skills, with a focus on the human/soft skills that are required in the global labour market and links them to dignified digital remote work. The final piece of Na’amal’s work is the link to employment. However, different partners all have different requirements for digital employment profiles, involving scarce skills and l...")
• 15:22, 29 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Dry Cycle (Created page with "Client: William Jones <william.jones@embecosm.com> The Barbican Rain Room was an artificial shower, digitally controlled so you could walk around in it while never getting wet. Imagine if every bicycle ride in Cambridge was programmed to be dry! Your goal is to use advanced Dynamic Causal Modelling (DCM) to extrapolate from open rain radar data, finding precise windows when a specific bicycle journey can be completed through dry corridors, even if it’s raining all aro...")
• 14:58, 29 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Living Salad Bar (Created page with "Client: Queens Sustainability Lab Commercial salad growers must operate at scale, stripping whole plants to truck around the country. In contrast, a typical salad plate or sandwich may only require a few leaves, beans or fruit from a plant that can keep growing. Your client has the components for a vertical garden, but wants to manage this in the most versatile and efficient way possible, using soil and water sensors together machine vision to identify every optimal pic...")
• 14:39, 29 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Memories Retold (Created page with "Client: Jonathan Sunderland, Ab Initio Design and develop an application to help people with memory loss create an oral history through interactive prompted storytelling. The application should use AI to identify suggested talking points and ask contextual questions to trigger the unlocking of long-term memories. The application should accept images as input prompts, and use speech-to-text conversion to capture the user's responses. Ethical aspects should be considered,...")
• 14:28, 29 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Optimising Scores (Created page with "Client: Arild Stenberg, Music Faculty The LaTeX typesetting system can be used to render many alternative styles of document from a master text specification. In contrast, music typesetting systems like Sibelius make all music look much the same. Your client has designed an optimised alternative style for music notation that has been found to improve performance. Your task is to define a specification language for these modifications, and implement a rendering pipeline...")
• 10:42, 29 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Heterodox Economic Modeller (Created page with "There is a long history of financial simulators that can be used to model national economies, dating back to the water-powered “Phillips machine” (we have one in Cambridge). Today’s economy is stuck in a rut, because alternative economic theories are proposed by people whose mathematical models are simply less well embedded than the legacy implementations. Your task is to create a quick and dirty financial simulator that could be used by heterodox economists to pro...")
• 07:54, 29 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Envisioning Nairobi (Created page with "Large cities around the world are grappling with plans to accommodate environmental, social and climate change. But there is a huge gulf between the technical software of geographical information systems and infrastructure planning on one hand, and the retail and entertainment data that is promoted in consumer products like Google Maps. The city of Nairobi is thinking ahead through an Urban re-engineering Taskforce, including a vision for Nairobi Railway City. Your role...")
• 17:25, 28 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Disability Bias Explorer (Created page with "Recent work led by a team at ethical AI initiative Hugging Face (arXiv:2303.11408) demonstrated a tool that could be used to interactively investigate some of the race and gender biases that have become encoded in major text to image generation systems. Your task is to create a similar tool that could be used to demonstrate image generation biases relevant to visual disabilities. You may also need to consider how this tool can be made accessible to users who have visual...")
• 17:24, 28 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Listening to the Land (Created page with "Land management on a large scale requires a balance between productivity and ecological diversity, but it can be very difficult to integrate different data sources for strategic planning. This project will integrate remote satellite sensing from the Google Earth Engine with local bioacoustic surveys from the BTO acoustic pipeline, to visualise both historical and projected future measures, supporting land managers to make decisions about crops. harvests, irrigation, tour...")
• 17:23, 28 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Testing for Humans (Created page with "Client: Bhasi Nair, Equitech Futures <bhasi@equitechfutures.com> Many companies rely on online programming aptitude tests to select potential employees. Unfortunately, applicants can often fool the test by finding answers online, or even generating a response automatically using an AI chatbot. Your task is to create an authoring and administration tool for aptitude question banks that automatically benchmarks them against such strategies, helping the question author to...")
• 15:14, 27 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Embecosm (Created page with "Potential client: Will Jones <william.jones@embecosm.com>")
• 13:36, 26 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Investment Provenance (Created page with "There are many online forums that offer investment advice, but not much of it is original. Your task is to create a tool for use by traders, that annotates investment tips with a history of where they came from. This is likely to require some research into text processing algorithms and statistics, as well as an intuitive front end that helps users understand the "genetics" of specific investment trends and memes.")
• 14:43, 22 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Stretching the Score (Created page with "Client: Philip Hazel, PMW Anyone who has learned a musical instrument or taken a music lesson at school is likely to have seen printed scores created with Sibelius, one of the most famous software companies to have come from Cambridge. The Sibelius tools make it very easy to print music in the way it has looked for 200 years or more, but very hard to adapt with typographic innovations that make music easier. Your goal is to create an alternative specification language a...")
• 14:30, 22 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs moved page Croptimisation to Ramping Up Sustainable Crops (Replace stupid pun)
• 14:50, 20 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Talking Music (Created page with "Client: Cecily Morrison, Microsoft Research People with different sensory capabilities or diverse neural styles sometimes find it easier to communicate via a musical instrument or a piano keyboard than with the screen and keyboard of a laptop. The goal of this project is to make an alternative kind of music editor that works with text and sound as the elements, rather than working with music notation on the computer screen. The open source synthesiser SuperCollider gene...")
• 17:00, 14 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Croptimisation (Created page with "Charles Gentry, NIAB <charles.gentry@niab.com> Arable crops in the countryside around Cambridge rely on soil nitrogen, but many farming practices are wasteful of this critical resource, potentially leading to other environmental risks. Your goal is to use recent advances in satellite imagery and robot/drone application to implement optimisation algorithms for the Ramp Calibration Strip method. Real data can be used in to construct realistic field simulations, but there...")
• 15:02, 13 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page BeatGPT (Created page with "ChatGPT is very good at answering the kinds of question where everybody already knows the answer. It is terrible in situations where the “wisdom of crowds” fails, and the Internet (or Reddit) never had the right answer. There are known strategies to compensate for this. Your task is to build an online platform for question answering that does exactly what ChatGPT can’t, by using those social metrics to reliably identify the answers that are surprising but true.")
• 13:43, 12 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Visiting the Forest Stream (Created page with "There are many Spotify playlists featuring the sound of nature, but it's hard to visit the places those sounds were recorded, or meet the people that live there. This project is an environmental update on music artists who make more money from concert visits and merchandise than they do from streaming licenses. Your client has been working with a forest community in Ghana, where the environmental soundscape doesn't bring any revenue to the village. The goal is to create...")
• 14:47, 1 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page SMARTRI Indonesia (Created page with "Local contact: Becky Heath <rh862@cam.ac.uk>")
• 14:01, 1 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page ClimateInColour (Created page with "Discuss with Joycelyn Longdon <jl2182@cam.ac.uk> Likely design client: Ana")
• 13:59, 1 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Copilot for Business (Created page with "We’re all familiar with the code generation capabilities of ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. That’s fine for experienced programmers, but how could an AI coding tool support people who have never written a line of code? Your goal is to create a user friendly natural language interface that not only generates code for extracting and visualising data from an arbitrary business database, but helps non-programmer users to understand how that code works, recognising and correc...")
• 15:33, 31 August 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page DoS D-Stress (Created page with "The very first AI chatbot was the psychotherapist Eliza. For young people today, mental health is more challenging than ever, but we aren’t using LLM technology in ways that reduce stress. Your goal is to create a de-stressing experience, potentially including responsive sound and imagery alongside short generated texts that respond to what is stressing you. A fully automated chain should direct stressful content (e.g. an email from your DoS) directly into the system s...")
• 06:19, 31 August 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Cam-AI (Created page with "Client: Simon Fothergill")
• 08:32, 21 August 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Creative Writing Coach (Created page with "AI Language models do very well at correcting spelling and grammar, but can they help with more creative writing? The goal of this project is to create an app in the style of Duolingo that helps students learn to write more creatively, with poetic imagery, dramatic tension and vivid characterisation. Experiments show that a standard LLM (with carefully designed prompts) can provide critical feedback, but your app needs to engage and motivate students to become fluent cre...")
• 14:55, 17 April 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Non-WEIRD Data Science (Created page with "Many data journalists report information collected from people who are Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic, but this "WEIRD" demographic does not represent the majority of people in the world. AfroBarometer collects data from 33 different countries on the African continent, and makes it openly available. Your task is to create a tool that maps datasets from AfroBarometer onto key current issues in the UK news media, helping readers in this country get...")
• 14:47, 17 April 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Guitar tab2hand (Created page with "Guitar tabs are a simple and popular alternative to music notation for guitar students, as well as guitarists and bassists in cover bands. The tab tells you where each string needs to be held, but not how to get enough fingers into the right places. That requires a clever algorithm, perhaps AI-assisted. Your task is to build an app that automatically converts tabs, from sites like ultimate-guitar.com, into a 3D animated hand that shows a student how to hold their hand on...")
• 09:09, 13 April 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page ResponsibleAncestry.com (Created page with "Older people often get interested in tracing their family trees on sites like ancestry.com. Perhaps it would be more useful if they spent the time planning for their grandchildren? Responsible ancestry.com should be a repository of traceable planning for the future, helping people to be responsible ancestors, so that the decisions they make about their lives today can be evaluated for their impacts on grandchildren and great-grandchildren")
• 12:34, 17 March 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Lee Wilson (Created page with "Apologies for late response, meant to get back to you earlier but am busy in Qatar with another WHO digital project. Yes, be happy to help out with your students.")
• 12:33, 17 March 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page The Carbon Eye (Created page with "App for infrared camera attachment to estimate carbon costs of heat escaping from a building, and directly calculate financial costs and benefits of insulation, draft reduction, secondary glazing etc.")
• 11:09, 18 February 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Daniel Hall (Created page with "Daniel Hall, CamCyan Ltd <danielahall@gmail.com> General area of cloud computing for graphics rendering/printing services.")
• 15:52, 4 November 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page 2023 list (Created page with "Complete list of design briefs to be advertised to students for 2023 group design projects. (text transcluded from individual project descriptions - click on project title to...")
• 15:13, 4 November 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page ModularSynth.io (Created page with "Client: (name to be confirmed), IMC Sophisticated digital music composition tools like the Sonic Pi language rely on an internal architecture of samples, waveforms and filter...")
• 17:57, 2 November 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page Just Maps (Created page with "Cambridge has been named the most unequal city in the UK, with homelessness, poverty, and unaffordable housing exacerbated by unequal access to land. The goal of this project...")