Dominique Truninger

Work at ZHAW

Focus

Children and youth public health, Promotion of mental health in childhood, Child development, Digital Health

Teaching

BA.XX.211 Scientific work and quantitative research methods

Experience

• Research associate
  Institute of Public Health (IPH)
  07 / 2024 - 12 / 2024
• Research Assistant
  Institute of Public Health (IPH)
  09 / 2021 - 07 / 2023
• Research Assistant
  Institute of Embedded Systems (InES)
  09 / 2013 - 09 / 2021

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Bachelor of Science (BSc) / Psychology
  ZHAW School of Applied Psychology
  03 / 2018 - 09 / 2022
• Bachelor of Science (BSc) / Electrical Engineering
  ZHAW School of Engineering
  09 / 2010 - 08 / 2013

Network

Membership of networks

CYPHER - Child and Youth Public Health Research competence network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1685-4479

Awards

Bachelor thesis - "BLE Anywhere"
Electrosuisse
07 / 2015

Projects

• Serious Game Approach to improving Writing Skills in School-Aged Children / Team member / ongoing
• Fokus-Uhr / Team member / completed
• Immediate Support for School Stress: A Digital Feedback System for Adolescents Immediate help with school stress. A Digital feedback system for adolescents / Team member / completed
• Improving the well-being of residents in care homes by making catering services more flexible with the help of technology / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Altwicker-Hámori, S. et al. (2024) 'Risk factors for smoking in adolescence : evidence from a cross-sectional survey in Switzerland', BMC Public Health, 24(1), p. 1165. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-18695-4.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Weber, C. et al. (2025) 'Immediate help for school stress : digital feedback system for adolescents', in 7th Digital Health Lab Day, Winterthur, Switzerland, 3 September 2025. Winterthur: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-34810.
• Gruber, J.-M. and Truninger, D. (2016) 'Increased efficiency in a vibration based energy harvesting system by using a SSHI circuit', in Embedded World 2016 Proceedings. Nürnberg: WEKA.
• Gruber, J.-M., Fabbroni, T. and Truninger, D. (2015) 'Verbindungslose bidirektionale Kommunikation auf Basis von BLE Advertising für Beacons mit Lifetime Battery', in IoT Konferenz 2015, Internet of Things - vom Sensor bis zur Cloud, München, 22. Oktober 2015. WEKA Fachmedien.
• Gruber, J.-M. and Truninger, D. (2015) 'Design and experimental analysis of a piezoelectric energy harvesting system using synchronized switch harvesting on inductor (SSHI)', in Wireless Congress 2015 Proceedings. WEKA Fachmedien.

Other publications

• Truninger, D. et al. (2022) 'Digital pens for measuring fine motor skills in school-aged children with and without ADHD', in 4. Digital Health Lab Day, Winterthur, Schweiz, 12. September 2022. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-25701.
• Brütsch, M. et al. (2018) 'Comparing the energy requirements of bluetooth smart devices (November 2018)', in Wireless Congress Proceedings. WEKA. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-3163.
• Truninger, D. (2015) Analyse der Empfangshäufigkeit von Bluetooth Low Energy Paketen für IPhone Applikationen im Background-Mode. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-179.
• Gruber, J.-M. and Truninger, D. (2015) 'Piezoelektrischer Energy Harvester : Induktivität steigert Ertrag', Wireless: Fachmedium für Entwicklungen funkbasierter Systeme, 2015(11), pp. 38–41.
• Truninger, D. and Fabbroni, T. (2015) Bidirectional Communication for Bluetooth Low Energy without establishing a connection. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-178.
• Gruber, J.-M., Truninger, D. and Fabbroni, T. (2015) 'BLE Advertising mit Feedback : Fokus liegt auf Ultra-Low-Power-Anwendungen mit reduzierten Datenraten', Polyscope, 2015(11), pp. 21–23. Available at: https://www.polyscope.ch/archiv/2015/11/ble-advertising-mit-feedback/.
• Meli, M. et al. (2013) 'Bluetooth low energy everywhere : using the audio interface to bring Ble features to any smart phone', in Wireless Congress: Systems & Applications, Munich, Germany, 6-7 November 2013. München: WEKA.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Chatelain, G. et al. (2025) 'Denormalizing (e-)cigarettes at school : co-designing preventive measures with adolescents', in European Journal of Public Health. Oxford University Press, p. ckaf161.1552. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaf161.1552.
• Truninger, D. et al. (2025) 'Wellguides : ein schulbasierter Peer-to-Peer-Ansatz zur Förderung der psychischen Gesundheit junger Menschen', in Swiss Public Health Conference (SPHC), Lugano, Switzerland, 10-11 September 2025.
• Götz, U. et al. (2022) 'Konditorei Kritzel : spielerisch Schreibmotorik trainieren', in Event der Digitalisierungsinitiative (DIZH) 'Gaming for Good', Zürich, Schweiz, 17. November 2022.
• Gruber, J.-M., Fabbroni, T. and Truninger, D. (2015) 'Bluetooth low energy feedback', in Embedded Computing Conference (ECC2015), Winterthur, 2. September 2015.

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