This document contains the mid-term presentation for a course on IT innovations by three students. It includes an outline, sections on the project topic and objectives, a brief introduction to 3D printers, collected information from online and library sources, a mind map, survey questions and charts, an analysis of the survey results, and the job division among the group members for the presentation.

1. GCIT1015 IT Innovations Shaping Our World
Mid-term Presentation
3D Printers
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Chow Tsz Ho
KAN Tik Lun
YUAN Yiting Natalie
10/21/2014

2. Content
1. Project topic and objectives
2. Brief introduction
3. Information
4. Mind map
5. Survey questions and charts
6. Survey result analysis
7. Job division

3. Outline
Project
topic and
objectives
Brief
introduction
Information Mind map
Survey
questions
and charts
Survey
result
analysis
Job division

4. Project topic and objectives
Topic: 3D Printer
Objectives
1. To know more about this innovation
2. Introduce to the public
3. Discover benefits
4. Discover the views of the public

5. Brief introduction
 Print out 3D objects
 Using additive processes:
 Successive layers of material are laid down
 Idea in the 1980s
 Getting better
 Price is lower now
 Many important uses
 In industry, consumer, manufacturing use
better for the environment

6. Collected Information
(Web)
Search Strategies Web site
3D printer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_p
rinting
http://www.makerbot.com/
Top*3D printer applications http://www.3ders.org/applications
.html
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/be
st-3d-printers,review-2236.html
Jewelry 3D printer filetype: pdf isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb...fil
es/preparing-3D-print-files.pdf
nicsu.up.nic.in/knowdesk/3D-Printing-
Technology.pdf
3D printer medicine or aerospace http://3dprintingindustry.com/me
dical/
http://3dprintingindustry.com/aer
ospace/

7. Collected Information
(Library)
Search
Strategies
Library
resource
Library resource
3D printer Books http://hkbu.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link
/0/eLvHCXMwY2BQSDIxSkoGXYAC7FwYp6UZp5qm
mRulpBkkG5hbWqSAT98LCDL3jbIMCjQNQyrN3YQY
mFLzRBlk3VxDnD10M7KTSuOhgxjxScbAqtLcFFh_ijH
wJoIWf-eVgDeJpUgwKKSYpKRapiVbGCclp5okWSZaAlvByZbJ
oAlO8GkpADltJUA
3D printer News
articles
http://hkbu.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link
/0/eLvHCXMwTZ0xC8IwFISDu4ugOPYPFNKkSZNZLC
6CluLglryXG0sH_z--FAf_xN13cO-eUk3uTab6AEXChQVscRgMQ5MeYuBtfe8xDfd3nJ7u9
afm40HtynJU83idL7f29wygXQVpWwMhWxJvr3Milp1
DioklnWhNsUPnQT6kvlTC6YpBBqPWDMWuDVzW9qT
2qXbGl892W8Zn1cTkiYtHrqtnIkAxsxMcB_UUOCB_Af
SrM2w

8. Collected Information
(Library)
Search
Library
Strategies
resource
Library resource
3D printer
And
medicine
Journals http://hkbu.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwY2
BQSDIxSkoGXYAC7FwYp6UZp5qmmRulpBkkG5hbWqSAT98LCDL3jbIM
CjQNQyrN3YQYmFLzRBnk3FxDnD10YUVjfEpOTryxsaWxmYUxsDYxFm
PgTQSt_s4rAe8SS5FgUDC0TLQwMEo2NTBLNDKxSAKipJRUi1QLg7RUS
yMzU0sAS4MlPw
3D printer
And
“Aerospace”
Magazine http://hkbu.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwY2
BQSDIxSkoGXYAC7FwYp6UZp5qmmRulpBkkG5hbWqSAT98LCDL3jbIM
CjQNQyrN3YQYmFLzRBlk3VxDnD10QSVkfAHkzIV4YLI0AZ11Zm4sxsC
bCFr8nVcC3iSWIsGgkGJqlmpmnpxoaWxqbJJqbGppmWSRlpJkbJJmZm
poYWkAACSTJMs
3D printer
And impacts
2013
Journals http://hkbu.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwTV
0xDsIwDIzYWZBAjP1ApTROnGRGVCxIUFUMbLEdj534v0grBv5gne_k8
50xHXlHvBagNHEBqlCDRidq2cacZEvfe0zx_s7TM7z-
0Hw8mF1djmYer_Pl1v_KAPrq09DTel_jJFTaCPoCXCmzk-
I5KqAmJanJxSDMLpOKq4LFJ_ZJURsLhpPZl9Uzvny23zI5m44RkGx12h
SZFxsIQHEY2sYSpoD6BX_ENAU

9. Mind Map
http://www.mindmeister.com/457024096/3d-printers

10. Survey questions and charts
 Objectives
 To find out how popular is 3D printers in different age, gender and
industry group
 To find out when did people start using 3D printers
 To collect customers’ expectations on prices of 3D printers and 3D-printed
items
• Number of responses: 16 (on 20 Oct 2014)

11. Survey questions and charts
 Gender
 Male
 Female
 Age
 Industry
 Perceived beneficence
 Usage experience
 Yes
 No

12. Survey questions and charts
 Users of 3D Printers
 Date of purchase
 Strangers to 3D Printers
 Video introduction
 Estimation of price of a basic 3D Printer
 Perceived beneficence
 Possible development area
 Possible item for the specific industry
 Expected price for a 3D printer which can print the item
specified

13. Survey questions and charts

14. Survey result analysis
Age

15. Survey result analysis

16. 10/21/2014

17. Survey result analysis
 Chart analysis
 Some examples of analysis
 The reason why most people choose answer 1….
 The effect of ….
 Very few people choose answer 2 implies…
 This may lead to a phenomenon of…
 The opportunities behind…

18. Survey result analysis
 Perceived beneficence

19. Survey result analysis

20. Job division
Member Job
Chow Tsz Ho 1. Survey questions and
charts
2. Survey result analysis
3. PPT design
KAN Tik Lun 1. Information
2. Mind map
YUAN Yiting
Natalie
1. Project topic and
objectives
2. Brief introduction