Terrence Pugh

Terrence Pugh

Software Engineer by day, AI/ML research at Towson University by night.

Talks and presentations

An Innovative Approach to Implementing Application Training

October 20, 2020

Talk, All Things Open Confrence, Online

SkillTree provides a systematic and interactive way to promote user proficiency of an existing application. The service is based on industry best practices using gamification to provide awareness of tool features, promote best practices, and document user progression and expertise. By reducing an application’s training curve, SkillTree reduces traditional comprehensive training costs while providing a more enjoyable experience for the user.

SkillTree - Gamification Made Easy

September 17, 2020

Talk, 2020 ACM Richard Tapia, Bryant York Auditorium

One of the biggest obstacles to widespread adoption of an application is user familiarity. If users don’t know how to take advantage of all the features of your application, they might stop using it entirely! But what if the users could simply and easily train themselves? In this talk, Terrence will introduce SkillTree, an open source solution for gamifying user training. A product of a larger government initiative to move toward open source coding practices, SkillTree creates a rewards system that awards users skill points for executing defined actions in your application. It can be easily integrated into an existing application and quickly configured by the development team. In early deployments, SkillTree has dramatically increased user engagement and utilization of application features and generated significant cost savings over traditional training methods.

Utilization of Open Source Tools to Advance Mobile Forensic Curriculum Development

April 06, 2014

Poster, Symposium of the Association of Computer Information Science and Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions, Westin Virginia Beach Town Center

Today’s rapid advancement in mobile technology and the constant growth of personal information being stored in mobile devices has revealed the need for mobile forensics and the increasing demand for individuals skilled in mobile forensics investigation. In order for the forensics community to have advances in the mobile forensics concentration, there is a need to clearly define an educational agenda for researchers and students. Once a role is clearly outlined, better educational material can be developed for students.