Chris Dakin

Kinesiology and Health Science

Associate Professor


Chris Dakin

Contact Information

Office Hours: Thur 1:00-3:00 pm & by appointment
Office Location: HPER 132
Phone: 435-797-7324
Email: chris.dakin@usu.edu
Additional Information:

Educational Background

PhD, University of British Columbia, 2012
The development of stochastic vestibular stimulation and its application to dynamic vestibular evoked responses
Other, Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, 2007

Biography

BHK in Human Kinetics (University of British Columbia, Canada), PhD in Neuromechanics (University of British Columbia, Canada) - investigated the use of stochastic vestibular stimuli to probe the vestibular contribution to movement control. I spent four years as a Post-Doctoral fellow between the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine (USA) and the Institute of Neurology at University College London (UK) studying visual and vestibular perception and its contribution to determining our orientation relative to the world. Other related topics of research have included investigation of the vestibular contribution to locomotor stability and visual orientation perception in Spinocerebellar Ataxia. My current research focuses on untangling the contribution of different sources of sensory information to the process of movement and movement perception.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

  • Dakin, C., (2025). Interstep Variations of Stairways and Associations of High-Contrast Striping and Fall-Related Events: Observational Study. Interactive Journal of Medical Research, 14:e60622, doi: 10.2196/60622
  • Dakin, C.J, (2024). Real-World Stairways: Need for Visual Contrast Enhancements to Mitigate the Hazards of Variable Step Geometry. . Ergonomics in Design, doi: 10.1177/10648046241275056
  • Long, C., Dakin, C., Harper, S., Park, J., Folau, A., Crandall, M., Christensen, N., Louder, T., (2024). Lower limb muscle activation in young adults walking in water and on land. Applied Sciences, 14, doi: 10.3390/app14125044
  • Harrison, K., Dakin, C., Beethe, A., Louder, T., (2024). Effects of stroboscopic vision on depth jump motor control: A biomechanical analysis. Bioengineering, 11, doi: 10.3390/bioengineering11030290
  • England, D., Ruddy, K.L, Dakin, C., Schwartz, S., Butler, B., Bolton, D., (2021). Relationship between speed of response inhibition and ability to suppress a step in midlife and older adults. Gerontology
  • Dakin, C., Peters, A., Giunti, P., Day, B.L, (2018). Cerebellar degeneration increases visual influence on dynamic estimates of verticality. Current Biology, 28:22, 3589-3598. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.049
  • Dakin, C., Bolton, D., (2018). Forecast or fall: Prediction's importance to postural control. Frontiers in Neurology, 9, 924. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00924
  • Bressel, E., Vakula, M.N, Kim, Y., Bolton, D., Dakin, C., (2018). Comparison of the speed and accuracy for learning a motor skill on land and in chest-deep water. PLoS ONE, 13:8e0202284
  • Tisserand, R., Dakin, C., Van der Loos, M.H, Croft, E.A, Inglis, T.J, Blouin, J., (2018). Down regulation of vestibular balance stabilizing mechanisms to enable transition between motor states. elife, 7, e36123. doi: 10.7554/eLife.36123

Professional Journal

    An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

    Publications | Other

    An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

    Teaching

    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics (QI), Fall 2024
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2023
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2023
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2023
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2023
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2023
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2023
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Fall 2022
    , Spring 2022
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2022
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2022
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2022
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2022
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2022
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2022
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Fall 2021
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Fall 2021
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Fall 2021
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Fall 2021
    SPED 7820 - Seminar: Special Topics, Fall 2021
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2021
    KIN 4200 - Biomechanics, Fall 2020
    PSY 7090 - Experimental and Applied Psychological Science Program Seminar, Fall 2020
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Fall 2019
    SPED 7820 - Seminar: Special Topics, Fall 2019
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2019
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2019
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2019
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2019
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2019
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2019
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2019
    PEP 7330 - Supervision Internship, Spring 2019
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Fall 2018
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Fall 2018
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Fall 2018
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Fall 2018
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Fall 2018
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Fall 2018
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Fall 2018
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2018
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2018
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2018
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2018
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2018
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2018
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2018
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Fall 2017
    HONR 4900 - Honors Thesis/Capstone, Fall 2017
    SPED 7820 - Seminar: Special Topics, Fall 2017
    PEP 4200 - Biomechanics, Spring 2017
    PEP 4200 - PEP 4200 Biomechanics, Spring 2017

    Graduate Students Mentored

    Kelci Hannon, Kinesiology and Health Science, September 2018
    Dominique Rice, Kinesiology and Health Science, August 2019 - August 2021
    MacKenzie Campbell, Kinesiology and Health Science, August 2019 - June 2021
    Alex Braeger, Kinesiology and Health Science, August 2019 - April 2021
    Sean Madill, Kinesiology and Health Science, January 2017 - April 2018
    Alexander Kern, Kinesiology and Health Science, January 2017 - April 2018