Publications

Articles/Essays

• Catbas, N., Cano, J., Furkan, L., Walters, L., Michlowitz, R. "On the Generation of Digital Data and Models from Point Clouds: Application to a Pedestrian Bridge Structure." (2023) Infrastructures, Volume 9, Issue 1.

• Sermarini, J., Laviola, J., Azevedo, R., Walters, L., Michlowitz, R., Kider, J. Investigating the Impact of Augmented Reality and BIM on Retrofitting Training for Non-Experts. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023, 1–11. 

• L.C. Walters & R.A. Michlowitz, "A Retrospective Perspective on the Digital Recreation of Mid-Century Subjects," Journal of Visual Ethnography, 2016, 5(2), 37-54.
• L.C. Walters, C.E. Hughes, D. Hughes, “Revisiting the Future: Designing and Implementing a Large-Scale, Historically Conscious Virtual Environment,”  Games & Culture, December 2011, 6(6), 538-559.
• “Beyond the Cape: An Examination of Cape Canaveral’s Influence on the City of Cocoa Beach, 1950-1963,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Fall: 2008), 235-257.
• “The World Was There: A Photographic History of Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 82 (Winter: 2003), 43-58.

Book Sections/Chapters

• L.C Walters. "1964-65 New York World’s Fair and Future Technology: A Study of the Japan Pavilion," in Meet Me at the Fair: A World’s Fair Reader, ed. Celia Pearce et al. Carnegie Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh. 2014.

Conference Papers/Presentations

• Walters, L.C., Michlowitz, R.A., Martinez, E. S., McMahan, R.P., Kider, J.T., MemoryScan Environments: Creating Large-Scale Memory-Evocative Digital Twins. IEEE International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (2023).

• Sermarini, John, Robert A. Michlowitz, Joseph J. LaViola, Lori C. Walters, Roger Azevedo, and Joseph T. Kider Jr. “BIM Driven Retrofitting Design Evaluation of Building Facades.” In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction. SUI ’22. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. 
• Michlowitz, Robert A., Joseph T.  Kider Jr., Lori C. Walters. "MemoryScan: Smart Digital Transformation of Large-scale Environments for Eliciting Location Specific Knowledge." In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis for Mixed Reality IEEE-ISMAR (PIES-MR). 20 October 2022.
• Sermarini, J, Michlowitz, R.A., LaViola, J., Walters, L.C., Azevedo, & Kider, J.T. (2021) Embodied Façade Retrofit Design with Augmented Reality in the Built Environment. International Performance Building Association Simulations 2021 Conference.
• LC Walters, RA Michlowitz, MJ Adams, Using Laser Scans and ‘Life History’ to Remember Heritage in Virtual Environments, HCI International Conference Proceedings Part II, Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality, 19-24 July 2020, 314-326.
• RA Michlowitz, LC Walters, MJ Adams. Mid-Century Modern Structures and Community: Capturing a Building’s Life, International Congress of Creative Cities Conference, 24-25 January 2018, 1064-1077.. 

Awards

Selected Awards

• University of Central Florida, Excellence in Research Award - College of Graduate Studies - 2022
• University of Central Florida, Research Incentive Award (RIA) - 2021
• University of Central Florida, Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award - 2020
• University of Central Florida, Luminary Award - 2019
• Florida Historical Society, Caroline P. Rossetter Award - Outstanding Woman in Florida History - 2019
• News 13, Everyday Hero - 2016

Selected External Grants as PI or Co-PI

• National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation Program - 2024 
• National Science Foundation, Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research - 2023
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (Level II) - 2023
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (Level II) - 2022
• National Science Foundation, CISE Community Research Infrastructure, Planning Grant - 2021
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (Level III) - 2021
• National Science Foundation, Cyberlearning Grant - 2019
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (Level II) - 2017
• Microsoft HoloLens Award -2015
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant -2011
• National Science Foundation, Informal Science Education Grant - 2009
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Digitial Humanities Start-Up Grant - 2007
• State of Florida, Division of Historical Resources Preservation Grant - 2006 
• State of Florida, Division of Historical Resources Preservation Grant - 2005

Fellowships

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration/ American Society of Engineering Education Fellowship, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

Courses

• Fall 2025
• Spring 2026