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Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2013

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.

Number of groups in 2013

We expect 80 students to participate this year - these will probably be arranged into 14 groups - 10 with 6 members, and 4 with 5 members. We plan to offer at least 16 design briefs - preferably 17 or 18 - to allow for some student choice, technical lossage or client withdrawal.

Student briefing booklet

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1213.pdf

Useful examples of project formats - a set of design briefs from a previous year: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/2010-design-briefs.html

Management timetable

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

Confirmed design briefs

• Laser cutting round boxes from square sheets

• Friend meeting/tracking application for the Elderly

• Touch screen prototyping at school

• Cycle path mapping with a custom hardware platform

Prospective clients (provisional)

• Microsoft Research

• Netcraft

• VisualDNA

• Cisco

• Last.fm

• Engineering Design Centre

• Cambridge Science Centre

• Kettles Yard Gallery

• Palantir Technologies

• Frontier

• Morgan Stanley

• British Trust for Ornithology

• Microsoft Research Cambridge (2 projects)

• Jeff Patmore, Engineering Design Centre

• IBM

• Peter Cowley

• Neul.com

Project ideas without clients

• Raspberry Pi orchestra

• From Hogwarts to hackers

• Mashup tutorial builder

• Safer social media

• Personal status server

• Fix the past with Raspberry Pi

Wiki documentation

• Managed Wiki Service
• To manage groups of users see Special:UserManagement
• MediaWiki User's Guide