Lori is the director of the ChronoPoints lab at the Institute for Simulation & Training. Her research interests include the application of laser scanning, virtual and augmented reality to post-World War historical topics.

She has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Army Research Lab, Microsoft, and the State of Florida Bureau of Historic Preservation. Lori can never resist working on any project that addresses an aspect of Mid-Century architecture and design and is known to obsess about one amazing Mid-Century building, the Cocoa Beach Glass Bank.