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| Cambridge undergraduates study one subject, and do that very thoroughly. In a university with no "minor" options, how do students build interdisciplinary skills? One way is to spend the summer pursuing undergraduate research opportunities in other departments. | | Cambridge undergraduates study one subject, and do that very thoroughly. In a university with no "minor" options, how do students build interdisciplinary skills? One way is to spend the summer pursuing undergraduate research opportunities in other departments. |
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| A major Crucible initiative since 2002 has been the development and maintenance of an [[Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP)]]. Initially based on the UROP programme at MIT, and developed by [[David Good]] within the education programme of the [[Cambridge-MIT Institute]], the programme has since been maintained with funding from the Newton Trust, and from EPSRC (coordinated by [[Alan Blackwell]])
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| Crucible members have led a wide range of projects in which teams of undergraduates gained experience of design research, creating advanced technologies informed by human and social perspectives. | | Crucible members have led a wide range of projects in which teams of undergraduates gained experience of design research, creating advanced technologies informed by human and social perspectives. |
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| * [[Making mobiles tangible]] | | * [[Making mobiles tangible]] |
| * [[ReadYourMeter.org]] | | * [[ReadYourMeter.org]] |
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| Other design research opportunity for Cambridge students include: | | Other design research opportunity for Cambridge students include: |
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| * Computer science tripos [[group design projects]] | | * Computer science tripos [[group design projects]] |
| * Manufacturing engineering tripos design studio | | * Manufacturing engineering tripos design studio |
| * Masters in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment | | * Masters in [[Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment]] |
| * Cambridge Digital Studios | | * [[Cambridge Digital Studios]] |
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| The [[Cambridge Design Education Forum]] involves members from each of these departments. | | The [[Cambridge Design Education Forum]] involves members from each of these departments. |
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| Specific cross-disciplinary projects funded under the UROP scheme include:
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| MML, 2004
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| 1. Software techniques for integrating digital video into language
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| learning (Contact: Gavin Burnage)
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| Dominic Smith (Girton) will work for 10 weeks, for 1 week beginning 14
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| June, then for 9 weeks beginning 28 June.
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| 2. Register in the History of Spanish (Contact: Dr Chris Pountain)
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| Gemma Wheeler (Robinson) will work for 4 weeks beginning 21 June
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| Julia Angell (St John's) for six weeks beginning 19 July.
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| Physics, 2006
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| James Mead worked on:
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| [[Dasher]]
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| Investigate and evaluate methods for text-messaging with two
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| buttons, aimed at disabled people. Specifically, test new two
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| "dynamic" methods of steering the free software communication system,
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| "Dasher", developing and enhancing them in response to user feedback.
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| The main deliverables are a new mode for Dasher that's robust and
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| ready for delivery to real disabled users, and a quantitative evaluation of it.
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| Computer Lab, 2006
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| Chris Smowton worked on [[Dasher]]
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| Gareth Bailey, Hugh Warrington, Mattias Linnap, Vincent Chen, Vilius Naudziunas
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| Linguistics, 2007
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| Kirsty McDougall, supervised a student working on forensic speaker identification
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| Student- Qinkan Wu
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| Improving Techniques for Forensic Speaker Identification
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| A growing number of court cases involve the need to establish the speaker
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| of some recorded speech - a hoax emergency call, a fraudulent phone
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| transaction, an obscene voicemail, the planning of a drug deal and so on.
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| Voices, however, are not like fingerprints. Contrary to the impression
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| given by television shows such as CSI, there is no technique for
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| identifying a speaker with 100% reliability. A person’s voice varies,
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| depending on tiredness, emotion, how loud and fast he or she is speaking,
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| and many other factors. This variability within an individual’s voice makes
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| the task of speaker identification very complicated in the forensic domain,
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| where recordings are usually short, of poor quality and in a range of
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| The DyViS project (‘Dynamic Variability in Speech: A Forensic Phonetic
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| Study of British English’) in the Phonetics Laboratory in the Department of
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| Linguistics is carrying out research tackling these issues. The project has
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| compiled a large-scale database of speech in different speaking styles from
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| 100 speakers of Standard Southern British English. These recordings are
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| being analysed to determine how well the speakers can be discriminated and
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| what the best measures are for characterising their speech. The effects of
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| using the telephone on an individual's speech is also being analysed.
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| The student project will involve developing scripts to process and analyse
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| speech files efficiently using programs such as Praat. A background in
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| computer programming is required, but experience in using Praat is not
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| necessary. The exact nature of the work to be undertaken is flexible
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| depending on the skills and interests of the student.
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| Anthropology 2007
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| Social Anthropology online video library
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| Contact: Paul Sumption / Professor Alan Macfarlane
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| Student: Dahir Alissan
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| Within the department of Social Anthropology we have a video library of
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| approximately 3000 films. Previously a small Filemaker database was
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| published to the web to enable searching of an online film catalogue.
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| This system is doesn’t offer advanced searching and the database structure
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| lacks 3NF or normalisation. We are looking for a new solution for both the
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| administration of a new database and a web front end that allows advanced
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| The deliverable would be a backend in any open source SQL database.
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| An administration system for maintaining the database this could be an ODBC
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| front end or a web based system.
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| A web based front end that allowed searching and listing of films.
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| There is plenty of scope for adding extras features or adding a loan
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| booking system if time allowed.
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| Restrictions: A preference towards a student that has a good knowledge or
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| You’d be based at the Department of Social anthropology however as this
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| project is web based once the project was underway SSH / FTP could be used
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| Computer Lab 2007
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| 3D control of music structures
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| - supervised by Chris Nash
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| - student Tris Bracey
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| - working with Alejandro Vinao
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| Music 2008
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| Statistical analysis of violin timbre perception
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| Supervisor: Claudia Fritz/Ian Cross
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| Student: Andrew Norman
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| Computer Lab 2008
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| Software for dance
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| Supervisor: Luke Church
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| Student: Cheryl Hung
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| ReadYourMeter.org
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| Supervisors: Luke Church, Ian Davies, Andrew Rice, Alan Blackwell, David Mackay
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| Ravi Rayan, Peter Calvert, Dan Ryder-Cook
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| Computer Lab 2009
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| Supervisor: Luke Church
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| Student: Adona Iosif
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| Computer Lab 2010
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| Evolutionary blending of 3D surface models - part of the [[Coded Chimera]] project
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| Student Graeme Morgan
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| Student: John Lawson
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| - part of the [[Flagship Retrofit]] project
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| Computer Lab 2011
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| Student Rory McCann
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| - part of the [[Flagship Retrofit]] project
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