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Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2019

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 2019

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

Work in progress - design briefs for 2019

Notes on: What makes a good project?

In 2019, we estimate there will be 106 students, so about 18 project teams of 6 (two with only 5 students). We aim to advertise at least 20 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.

Confirmed design briefs for 2019 - list complete

• AI Chef

• Bone Doctor

• Clean Cycle

• Competing for Autonomy

• Distributed Microcontracts

• Eyes on the Road

• Eyes in the Sky

• Fever Finder

• Flyathlon

• Groundwater App

• Heroes in Conference

• Meeting Zoom

• LawBot

• Million Plant Map

• Probable Causes

• Robot Death Watch

• Text Farming

• Visual Pick and Place

• VR Avatar

• West Augmentation

2019 - final list of clients

Additional ideas for 2019

• Calendar Dialogue - Amazon

• Grand Remote - NHS Digital

Projects discussed, but probably not proceeding in 2019

• Auto-Emoji

• Archaeological databases

• The Headless Bicycle

• Emo Face

• Character Locomotion Middleware - Frontier

• Automatic accessibility assessor - Frontier

• City generation - Frontier

Potential clients for 2019

suggestions discussed

• Fitzwilliam Museum

• Thales

• JP Morgan

• Dovetailed

• Sainsbury Laboratory

dropped out of touch

• Smart Cambridge

• Oodle

• Mindi

• Fauna and Flora International

• Fusepump

no specific plan to proceed

• Investre

• Capita

• Nominet Trust

• University Information Services

• Microsoft proposing Sport England application

• BT

• Netcraft

Potential clients for 2020

• Autodesk

• Centre for Global Equality

• Ideaspace

• Collusion

Other clients considered in the past, but unlikely to proceed

• Sparx

• Cambridge Consultants

• Palantir

• Elm Partners

• Lucid / Cycorp

• Care Quality Commission

• King Digital Entertainment

• The Fusion Works

• Microsoft Research

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

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

• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2006

Projects that have been offered, but not assigned to groups

Projects offered in 2018 not assigned to groups

• Citizen Speed Safety

• Every Car in Cambridge

Projects offered in 2017 not assigned to groups

• Energy with Social Conscience

• Science for AD2500

• Surgery in the Cloud

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