David Grünert

Projects

• Science Fiction Prototyping: Human-AI Futures / Team member / ongoing
• Proof-of-Concept for a Match-Making Tool for ZHAW Members / Team member / completed
• Competence for Cantonal Energy and Climate Policy ZHAW through expansion and communication of the Cantonal Clean Energy INDEX Switzerland / Team member / completed
• Establishing the Cantonal Clean Energy INDEX Switzerland (CEIS) as standard instrument for policy makers / Team member / completed
• Design Criteria for Communicating with Avatars and Smart Agents / Team member / completed
• Multi-Dimensional Versioning for Information Systems / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Keller, T. et al. (2023) 'The challenges, potentials and experiences of virtual reality learning units', IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet, 21(1), pp. 1–17. Available at: https://www.iadisportal.org/ijwi/papers/202321101.pdf.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Rozek, R. and Grünert, D. (2018) 'Fallstudie Axa Winterthur : intelligenter Distributionsanfrageprozess', in Brucker-Kley, E., Kykalova, D., and Keller, T. (eds) Prozessintelligenz. Berlin: Springer, pp. 21–29. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-55705-1_3.
• Peyer, M., Grünert, D. and Brucker-Kley, E. (2018) 'Fallstudie Swiss Re : «Case Management in P&C Reinsurance – Wissensarbeit im Fokus»', in Brucker-Kley, E., Kykalova, D., and Keller, T. (eds) Kundennutzen durch digitale Transformation : Business-Process-Management-Studie – Status quo und Erfolgsmuster. Berlin: Springer, pp. 83–97. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-55707-5_6.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Burdisso, S. et al. (2026) 'SDialog : a python toolkit for end-to-end agent building, user simulation, dialog generation, and evaluation', in Croce, D., Leidner, J., and Sadat Moosavi, N. (eds) Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations). Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 320–340. doi: 10.18653/v1/2026.eacl-demo.23.
• Fries, T. et al. (2025) 'DSER : dialog-structure-aware metric for speaker diarization evaluation in forensics', in 33rd Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA), The Hague, The Netherlands, 20-23 July 2025.
• Grünert, D., de Spindler, A. and Dellwo, V. (2025) 'GOOSVC : version control for content creation with generative AI', in Gerber, J. et al. (eds) Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 66–74. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-36595.
• Pepic, S. et al. (2017) 'Modeling business processes using gesture and speech recognition', in Kommers, P. and Isaias, P. (eds) Proceedings of the 15th international conference e-society 2017. Budapest: IADIS, pp. 187–194. Available at: http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/modeling-business-processes-using-gesture-and-speech-recognition.
• Grünert, D., Keller, T. and Brucker-Kley, E. (2016) 'Artifact-centric modeling of business processes using UML diagrams', in Callaos, N. et al. (eds) Proceedings of The 20th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2016). Winter Garde: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, pp. 150–155. Available at: http://www.iiis.org/CDs2016/CD2016Summer/papers/SA176BT.pdf.
• Grünert, D., Brucker-Kley, E. and Keller, T. (2014) 'oBPM : an opportunistic approach to business process modeling and execution', in Fournier, F. and Mendling, J. (eds) Business process management workshops : BPM 2014 international workshops, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 7-8, 2014, revised papers. Cham: Springer, pp. 463–476. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-15895-2_40.
• Grünert, D. and Keller, T. (2014) 'Business process modeling using activity patterns', in 12th International Conference on e-Society 2014, Madrid, Spain, 28 February - 2 March 2014. IADIS, pp. 193–199. Available at: http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/business-process-modeling-using-activity-patterns.

Other publications

Brucker-Kley, E. et al. (2015) Business Process Management 2015 : Status quo und Best Practices «Prozessintelligenz». Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-3390.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Grünert, D. et al. (2024) 'Generating synthetic datasets for the validation and training of automatic speech analysis systems in the context of organized crime', in 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Voice Identity, Marburg, Germany, 28-30 August 2024. Available at: https://www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb09/institutes/german-linguistics/phonetics/media/voiceid-booklet.pdf.
• Grünert, D., de Spindler, A. and Dellwo, V. (2023) 'Speaker diarization systems in the context of forensic audio analysis', in 31st IAFPA Conference : Book of Abstracts. Zurich: Centre for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (CFPA), pp. 74–75.
• Grünert, D. (2013) 'Prozessautomatisierung und Generierung von Workflows am Beispiel KSA', in IWI Faculty Workshop, Winterthur, 24. Januar 2013.

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