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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 2021

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

Work in progress - design briefs for 2022

Notes on: What makes a good project?

In 2022, we expect there will be 116 students, so 20 project teams: 16 teams of 6 and 4 teams of 5. We aim to advertise at least 22 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.

Confirmed projects for 2022

  1. Wiki Editor-Editor
  2. Carbon Accounting
  3. Empathetic Chatbot
  4. SMART Climate Goals
  5. Video Bones
  6. Personal Ambiguator
  7. Strawberry Fields
  8. Global Ground Truth
  9. Online Programming Game
  10. Green Maps
  11. Smart Bins
  12. Reading the Leaves
  13. The Automatic Accountant
  14. Youth-led Future
  15. Flyathlon
  16. Exhibition Inference
  17. Conservation Evidence Synthesis
  18. Migration Simulation
  19. International Treasury Service
  20. Household Payment Pool

Design briefs being finalised

  1. Creative Community
  2. Urban Stories
  3. Mobilising the University
  4. Social Media Wellbeing Filter
  5. Trading Reasons

Confirmed clients for 2022

Expected clients for 2022

Potential clients to contact for 2022

Incubator contacts

Development notes carried forward from 2021


Other clients from 2021

People who have suggested we contact them for 2023

Previous ideas that have not been used

  • Character Locomotion Middleware - Frontier
  • Automatic accessibility assessor - Frontier

Potential clients that did not proceed, but could be considered in future

Archived records of previous years

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!