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==Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2015==
==Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2021==


This page currently lists design briefs under development - all content is to be considered as 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.
This page currently lists design briefs under development. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome, to group-project@cl.cam.ac.uk


We expect 93 students to participate this year. These will probably be arranged into 16 groups - 13 with 6 members, and 3 with 5 members. We plan to offer at least 18 design briefs - preferably 19 or 20 - to allow for some student choice, technical lossage or client withdrawal.
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.
 
==Management timetable==
 
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/timetable.html


==Intellectual property==
==Intellectual property==
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Information for students, and course history: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects
Information for students, and course history: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects


==Work in progress - design briefs for 2015==
Information for [[Directors of Studies]]


===Project ideas under development, without clients identified===
Information for the [[Coordinators]]


* [[Online advice assistant]]
==Management timetable for 2023==


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


* [[Marker of the Beast]]
==Work in progress - design briefs for 2024==


* [[Multiplayer Rift]]
Notes on: [[What makes a good project?]]


===Clients intending to propose projects in 2015===
In 2024, we expect there will be 138 students, so 23 project teams of 6. We aim to advertise at least 25 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.


* [[Illumina]]
===Confirmed design briefs for 2024===


* [[Bloomberg]]
# [[Acoustic Land Management]]
# [[Braille Predictive Text]]
# [[Climate Foresight]]
# [[Component Quest]]
# [[Copilot for Business]]
# [[Creative Writing Coach]]
# [[Disability Bias Explorer]]
# [[DoS D-Stress]]
# [[Engaging Everyone]]
# [[Envisioning Nairobi]]
# [[Heterodox Economic Modeller]]
# [[Influencing Health]]
# [[Investment Provenance]]
# [[Memories Retold]]
# [[Optimising Music Notation]]
# [[P2P Social Network]]
# [[Ramping Up Sustainable Crops]]
# [[Real-pedia]]
# [[Supply Chain Resilience]]
# [[Talking Music]]
# [[Taste: Movies x Books x Music]]
# [[Testing for Humans]]
# [[Visiting the Forest Stream]]
# [[Wearable Sleep Coach]]
# [[World Craft]]


* [[Steve Wade]]
===Confirmed clients for 2024 (partial list)===


* [[Cambridge Humanitarian Centre]]
* [[ClimateInColour]]
* [[Cam-AI]]
* [[NIAB]]
* [[Embecosm]]
* [[Lee Wilson]]
* [[Microsoft Research]]


* [[Fusepump]]
===Other design briefs considered for 2024===


* [[Metaswitch Networks]]
# [[The Big Chill]]
# [[Future Health and Fitness]]
# [[AfroInsight]]
# [[Leadership Transition Simulator]]
# [[Environmental Value Added]]
# [[Just Maps]]
# [[Non-WEIRD Data Science]]


* [[Amazon]]
==Future preparation - design briefs for 2025==


* [[ARM]]
===Projects to consider in 2025===


* [[Morgan Stanley]]
* [[Living Salad Bar]]
* [[Dignified Distributed Work]]
* [[The Carbon Eye]]
* [[ResponsibleAncestry.com]]
* [[Guitar tab2hand]]


* [[TPP]]
===Potential clients for 2025===


===Projects already confirmed for 2015===
* [[Anthony Harris]]
* [[Rivos Systems]]
* [[JAID]]
* [[AMD]]
* [[Raspberry Pi Foundation]]
* Katy Jordan, EdTech Hub
* Adham Ashton-Butt, [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* Adam Devenish, RSPB
* Maximilian Ge


* [[Extrusion finder]]
===Incubator and network contacts===


* [[Micro-friends video diary]]
* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
* [[Barn4]]
* [[Ideaspace]]
* [[Emma Salgard Cunha]] - humanities at Cambridge Enterprise
* [[Nicola Buckley]] - policy fellows at CSaP


===Clients already confirmed for 2015===
===Other client discussions (last updated 2023)===


* [[Boeing]]
* [[SMARTRI Indonesia]]
* [[Mark Gotham]]
* [[Daniel Hall]]
* [[London Stock Exchange Group]]
* Neil Walker
* [[Milk and More]]
* [[Jane Street]]
* [[Fair Finance]]
* [[The Fusion Works]]
* [[Frontier]]
* [[Amazon]]
* [[Dovetailed]]
* [[JP Morgan]]
* [[Centre for Policy Futures]]
* [[Gardin]]
* [[ICCCAD]]
* [[Antobot]]
* [[Morgan Stanley]]
* [[Curriculum for Life]]
* [[RSPB]]
* [[BigPay]]
* [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* [[University Information Services]]


* [[Metaswitch Networks]]
===Development notes carried forward from 2021===


==More ideas from previous years==
* [[Frontier]] - second project
* [[NIAB]] - second project
* [[Informetis]] - topic discussed
* [[Giving Voice to Digital Democracies]] - topic suggested, no response
* [[ARM]] - contact identified, but no topic


===Project ideas for 2014 that were not offered ===
===Other clients from 2021===


* [[Digital Sheet Music Viewer]]
* [[MathWorks]]


* [[Rent-A-Mob]]
* [[Boeing]]
* [[TechWolf]]
* [[DX Analytics]]
* [[Umbrella Analytics]]
* [[Lyzeum Ltd]]
* [[Broadcom]] - all contact emails now bounce


* [[Zombie for a Day]]
==[[Previous ideas that have not been used]]==


* [[Raspberry Pi Orchestra]]


* [[Robot Bartender]]
* [[Calendar Dialogue]] - [[Amazon]]
* [[Auto-Emoji]]
* [[Archaeological databases]]
* [[The Headless Bicycle]]
* [[Emo Face]]
* Character Locomotion Middleware - [[Frontier]]
* Automatic accessibility assessor - [[Frontier]]
* City generation - [[Frontier]]


* [[CheckMate]]
==Potential clients that did not proceed, but could be considered in future==


* [[Wine Goggles]]
* 2022: [[Autodesk]]
* 2021: [[FetoLife]], [[Oodle]], [[NHS Digital]], [[Jump Trading]], [[Microsoft Africa Research Institute]]
* 2020: [[Argon Design]], [[Gearset]], [[Thales]], [[Sainsbury Laboratory]]
* 2019: [[Smart Cambridge]], [[Mindi]], [[Fauna and Flora International]], [[Fusepump]], [[Investre]],
* 2018: [[Sparx]], [[Cambridge Consultants]], [[Capita]], [[Nominet Trust]], [[University Information Services]], [[Sport England]]
* 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: [[Neul.com]], [[Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division]], [[Palantir Technologies]], [[Privacy International]]


* [[Graphical Programming for Budding Engineers on Raspberry Pi]]
==Archived records of previous years==


* [[Cambridge Overlay]]
===2024===


* [[Low energy ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) library]]
* [[2024 list]] of design briefs


* [[Application for the new 32-bit XAP6 Processor]]
===2023===


===Potential projects from 2013 that were not offered===
* [[2023 list]] of design briefs


* [[Fix the past with Raspberry Pi]]
===2022===


* [[Transparent public identity]]
* [[2022 list]] of design briefs
* [[2022 - final list of clients]]


* [[Raspberry Pi orchestra]]
===2021===


* [[Infect your friends]]
* Presentations from 2021: https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/teaching/part-ib/group-projects/presentations
* [[2021 list]] of design briefs
* [[2021 - final list of clients]]


* [[Mashup tutorial builder]]
===2020===


===Projects offered in 2013 not assigned to groups===
* 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]]


* [[Touch screen prototyping at school]]
===2019===


* [[Measuring glass-to-glass video-conference latency]]
* 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]]


* [[The Poet Laureate's web thresholds]]
===2018===


* [[Countryside web server]]
* 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]]


* [[Science exhibit interaction adviser]]
===2017===


* [[Personal status server]]
* 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]]


===Potential clients from 2014 that did not proceed===
===2016===


* [[Broadcom]]
* 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]]


* [[last.fm]]
===2015===


* [[Dovetailed]]
* 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
* [[Rangespan]]
* [[2015 list]] of design briefs
 
* [[2015 - final list of clients]]
* [[John McMillan]]
 
* [[Atheon]]
 
* [[OpenMarket]]
 
* [[Google]]
 
* [[Repindex]]


===Potential clients from 2013 that did not proceed===
===2014===
 
* [[Netcraft]]
 
* [[Neul.com]]
 
* [[Google]]
 
* [[Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division]]
 
* [[Palantir Technologies]]
 
* [[Morgan Stanley]]
 
* [[Privacy International]]
 
 
===Projects offered in 2014 not assigned to groups===
 
* [[Locally Augmented Retail]]
 
* [[Set Builder]]
 
* [[Employability Coach]]
 
* [[Dance Practice Assistant]]
 
* [[History Scraper]]
 
==Group Design Projects 2014==


* Student briefing booklet 2014: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1314.pdf
* Student briefing booklet 2014: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1314.pdf
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* [[2014 - final list of clients]]
* [[2014 - final list of clients]]


==Group Design Projects 2013==
===2013===


* Student briefing booklet 2013: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1213.pdf
* Student briefing booklet 2013: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1213.pdf
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* [[2013 - final list of clients]]
* [[2013 - final list of clients]]


==Previous years==
==Selected design briefs from earlier years==
 
* [[2010]]
* [[2009]]
* [[2008]]
* [[2006]]


Useful examples of project formats - a set of design briefs from a previous year:
==Projects that have been offered, but not assigned to groups==
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/2010-design-briefs.html


===Wiki documentation===
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!


* [http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/managedwiki/ Managed Wiki Service]  
* 2019: [[Flyathlon (2019 version)]], [[Robot Death Watch]], [[Visual Pick and Place]]
* To manage groups of users see [[Special:UserManagement]]
* 2018: [[Citizen Speed Safety]], [[Every Car in Cambridge]]
* MediaWiki [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide]
* 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]]

Revision as of 15:59, 21 March 2024

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 2024

Notes on: What makes a good project?

In 2024, we expect there will be 138 students, so 23 project teams of 6. We aim to advertise at least 25 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.

Confirmed design briefs for 2024

  1. Acoustic Land Management
  2. Braille Predictive Text
  3. Climate Foresight
  4. Component Quest
  5. Copilot for Business
  6. Creative Writing Coach
  7. Disability Bias Explorer
  8. DoS D-Stress
  9. Engaging Everyone
  10. Envisioning Nairobi
  11. Heterodox Economic Modeller
  12. Influencing Health
  13. Investment Provenance
  14. Memories Retold
  15. Optimising Music Notation
  16. P2P Social Network
  17. Ramping Up Sustainable Crops
  18. Real-pedia
  19. Supply Chain Resilience
  20. Talking Music
  21. Taste: Movies x Books x Music
  22. Testing for Humans
  23. Visiting the Forest Stream
  24. Wearable Sleep Coach
  25. World Craft

Confirmed clients for 2024 (partial list)

Other design briefs considered for 2024

  1. The Big Chill
  2. Future Health and Fitness
  3. AfroInsight
  4. Leadership Transition Simulator
  5. Environmental Value Added
  6. Just Maps
  7. Non-WEIRD Data Science

Future preparation - design briefs for 2025

Projects to consider in 2025

Potential clients for 2025

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

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

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!

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