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Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2017

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.

We expect 104 students to participate this year. These will probably be arranged into 18 groups - 14 with 6 members, and 4 with 5 members. We plan to offer at least 20 design briefs - preferably 21 or 22 - to allow for some student choice, technical lossage or client withdrawal.

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

Management timetable for 2017

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

Work in progress - design briefs for 2017 (none confirmed yet)

Notes on: What makes a good project?

We have 97 students registered for Part 1B, so plan to have 17 project teams (5 teams of 5, and 12 teams of 6). We aim to advertise at least 20 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.

Potential clients for 2017

• Netcraft

• The Hut Group

• Bohemia Interactive Simulations

• Cambridge University Press

• Cambridge Museums

• Boeing

• Cydar

• Jagex

• Frontier

• Microsoft Research

• IMC

• British Antarctic Survey

• BT

• Lucid / Cycorp

• Fusepump

• Care Quality Commission

• UNEP-WCMC

• John Norman, UIS

• University Information Services

• Fauna and Flora International

• Obex Technologies

• ARM

• Microsoft (Two projects)

• Cambridge Legal Risk Analytics

• Nominet Trust

Further client contacts

Potential clients from 2015 that did not proceed

• Thales - no project proposed

• Steve Wade - no project proposed

• Cambridge Humanitarian Centre - worked with clients from ARM

Potential clients from 2014 that did not proceed

• Broadcom

• last.fm

• Rangespan

• John McMillan

• Atheon

• OpenMarket

• Google

• Repindex

Potential clients from 2013 that did not proceed

• Netcraft

• Neul.com

• Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division

• Palantir Technologies

• Privacy International

Group Design Projects 2016

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

Group Design Projects 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

Group Design Projects 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

Group Design Projects 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