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., Ackermann, K. A., Furchheim, P., Dratva, J., Truninger, D., Müller, S., & Wieber, F. (2024). Risk factors for smoking in adolescence : evidence from a cross-sectional survey in Switzerland. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 1165. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18695-4

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Weber, C., Zysset, A., Klein Swormink, A., Kunz, D., Truninger, D., & Wieber, F. (2025, September 3). Immediate help for school stress : digital feedback system for adolescents. 7th Digital Health Lab Day, Winterthur, Switzerland, 3 September 2025. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-34810
• Gruber, J.-M., & Truninger, D. (2016). Increased efficiency in a vibration based energy harvesting system by using a SSHI circuit. Embedded World 2016 Proceedings.
• Gruber, J.-M., Fabbroni, T., & Truninger, D. (2015). Verbindungslose bidirektionale Kommunikation auf Basis von BLE Advertising für Beacons mit Lifetime Battery. IoT Konferenz 2015, Internet of Things - vom Sensor bis zur Cloud, München, 22. Oktober 2015.
• Gruber, J.-M., & Truninger, D. (2015). Design and experimental analysis of a piezoelectric energy harvesting system using synchronized switch harvesting on inductor (SSHI). Wireless Congress 2015 Proceedings.

Other publications

• Truninger, D., Zysset, A., Wehrli, S., Albermann, K., von Rhein, M., & Wieber, F. (2022, September 19). Digital pens for measuring fine motor skills in school-aged children with and without ADHD. 4. Digital Health Lab Day, Winterthur, Schweiz, 12. September 2022. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25701
• Brütsch, M., Brülisauer, C., Widmer, L., Kräuchi, R., Truninger, D., & Meli, M. (2018, November). Comparing the energy requirements of bluetooth smart devices (November 2018). Wireless Congress Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3163
• Truninger, D. (2015). Analyse der Empfangshäufigkeit von Bluetooth Low Energy Paketen für IPhone Applikationen im Background-Mode. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-179
• Gruber, J.-M., & Truninger, D. (2015). Piezoelektrischer Energy Harvester : Induktivität steigert Ertrag. Wireless: Fachmedium für Entwicklungen funkbasierter Systeme, 2015(11), 38–41.
• Truninger, D., & Fabbroni, T. (2015). Bidirectional Communication for Bluetooth Low Energy without establishing a connection. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-178
• Gruber, J.-M., Truninger, D., & Fabbroni, T. (2015). BLE Advertising mit Feedback : Fokus liegt auf Ultra-Low-Power-Anwendungen mit reduzierten Datenraten. Polyscope, 2015(11), 21–23. https://www.polyscope.ch/archiv/2015/11/ble-advertising-mit-feedback/
• Meli, M., Truninger, D., Rüst, A., & Häring, B. (2013). Bluetooth low energy everywhere : using the audio interface to bring Ble features to any smart phone. Wireless Congress: Systems & Applications, Munich, Germany, 6-7 November 2013.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Chatelain, G., Höchli, B., Morf, A., Truninger, D., & Wieber, F. (2025). Denormalizing (e-)cigarettes at school : co-designing preventive measures with adolescents [Conference presentation]. European Journal of Public Health, 35(Supplement_4), ckaf161. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaf161.1552
• Truninger, D., Grubenmann, M., Hefti, R., Bitsch, K., Jenzer, R., & Wieber, F. (2025, September 10). Wellguides : ein schulbasierter Peer-to-Peer-Ansatz zur Förderung der psychischen Gesundheit junger Menschen. Swiss Public Health Conference (SPHC), Lugano, Switzerland, 10-11 September 2025.
• Götz, U., Wieber, F., Zysset, A., Iakusheva, A., Capol, S., Hotz, M., Truninger, D., Schulze, C., & Frey, S. (2022, November 11). Konditorei Kritzel : spielerisch Schreibmotorik trainieren. Event der Digitalisierungsinitiative (DIZH) “Gaming for Good”, Zürich, Schweiz, 17. November 2022.
• Gruber, J.-M., Fabbroni, T., & Truninger, D. (2015). Bluetooth low energy feedback. Embedded Computing Conference (ECC2015), Winterthur, 2. September 2015.

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