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Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2021

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 2023

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

Work in progress - design briefs for 2025

Notes on: What makes a good project?

In 2025, we expect there will be 124 students, so 21 project teams (19 teams of 6 and 2 teams of 5). We aim to advertise at least 23 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.

Confirmed design briefs for 2025

  1. Grasping Concept Spaces
  2. Soft Music Notation
  3. Semantic Refactoring
  4. PromptPatrol
  5. Zeitgeist Map
  6. ChessPuzzy
  7. Virtual Science Ambassador
  8. Delivery Radar
  9. Personalised EULA Visualisation
  10. Chat-twin
  11. Speech Error Detection and Correction
  12. Conversational Patient History
  13. Care Phone
  14. Talk Interactive
  15. BS-meter
  16. Atmospheric Metaverse
  17. Code Explain AI Assistant
  18. Agent of Things
  19. Navigating Evolving Music
  20. Computing Physical Calculus
  21. Training Investigative Interviewers

Projects under discussion

  1. Sustainable Electronic Recycling
  2. Software Inconsistency Resolver
  3. JAID
  4. Driverless Humans
  5. Paper Simulator
  6. Checkpoint Alternatives

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

Future preparation - design briefs for 2026

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!