Studentprojects

Students: Mohamed & Aiman

This research is working on developing a configurable IoT platform for monitoring the indoor environment in smart buildings. The goal is to support the Workplace Vitality Hub with a flexible system that easily adapts to different building environments.

June 2025

Student: Mistral Govers

Organisation: WPVH

Coach: Frank Bauman

This study examines how to encourage young office workers to go outside more often during a workday. Namely, too little sunlight can have a negative impact on mood, concentration and sleep quality, and harm mental health in the long run. Yet working outside or getting some fresh air is not yet a given, mainly due to prevailing social norms in the office. This project investigates how gamification can help lower this threshold.

June 2025

Student: Daan van Herk

Organisation: Eveline Kersten & Bernard Grundlehner

Prolonged sitting increases the risk of physical complaints and chronic diseases, while office workers spend an average of more than 6 hours a day sitting. This study examines how workplace employees can be encouraged to sit less and change positions more often.

June 2025

Student: Yusuf Baydar

Organisation: Fontys Paramedical

This study examines how the job satisfaction of beginning teachers at Fontys Paramedical can be increased. Lecturers experience various factors that negatively influence their job satisfaction and job satisfaction, such as workload and expectations from the work environment. By conducting interviews, the factors that are most important for starting lecturers will be mapped. Based on these insights, a design will be developed and implemented that meets their needs and contributes to a good start and increased job satisfaction.

June 2025

Student: Michelle van de Looij

Organisatie: NotsoAI & WPVH

Coach: Eveline Kersten

This qualitative study examines what factors contribute to performance pressure among graduating students working at the Workplace Vitality Hub. Results showed that both internal factors (e.g., perfectionism, fear of failure and self-criticism) and external factors (e.g., expectations from school, parents, internship supervisors and social media) play a role.

June 2025

Student: Kezban Korkmaz

Organisation: Fontys Economics and Communication

Coach: Martin van Bendegom

This qualitative study examines how Fontys Economics and Communication can emphasize the theme of vitality more strongly, focusing on both mental and physical well-being of employees. The recommendation, therefore, is to develop an AI chatbot that helps employees easily find information about available vitality options.

June 2025

Student: Kjell Risseeuw

Organisation: Ahrend

Coach: Jesper Belonje & Nicole Berkers

This study examines how office furniture design can contribute to more relaxation and better productivity in the workplace. The insights show that employees need furniture that makes it easy to alternate between work and short breaks. Comfort, good ergonomics and sufficient acoustic attenuation play an important role here.

June 2025

Students: Mario Constantin, Iasmina Huțupaș, Andrei Niculescu, Luc Oerlemans

Coach: Bernard Grundlehner

This research focuses on better understanding how employees experience their work environment. The Smart Clicker 2.0 allows office workers to provide daily feedback about their workplace by answering a daily question. By analyzing these answers, researchers and managers can easily discover patterns in employee satisfaction and identify areas for improvement, without disrupting daily workflow.

June 2025

Student: Sam Sijbers

Coach: Eveline Kersten

This research focuses on enhancing academic self-confidence and reducing the procrastination that leads to it among graduating students. Critical feedback can reinforce negative thoughts, leading students to avoid action. This not only increases their own stress, but also puts additional pressure on supervisors who have less time for other work. The intervention resulting from this research helps students reframe their negative thought patterns to increase their academic self-confidence.

June 2025

Student: Mileymi González

Organisation: Workplace Vitality Hub

This research focuses on how students at the Workplace Vitality Hub can pick up stressful tasks faster and reduce procrastination. Students often procrastinate to avoid stress, but motivation grows with social support, small rewards and splitting tasks.

June 2025

Student: Lotte Vreede 

Coach: Nicole Ebben

This research focuses on reducing work stress among Fontys PhD students who combine their PhD research with their regular work. High workload, time pressure, perfectionism and a lack of structure and support put them at additional risk of mental overload and burnout.

June 2025

Student: Wout Brekelmans

Organisation: NotsoAI and WPVH

Coach: Eveline Kersten

Employee well-being is essential for job satisfaction, productivity and creativity, as well as contributing to customer loyalty and business results. AI chatbots can play a valuable role here. This project, in collaboration with NotsoAI, investigates which drivers and barriers influence the willingness to use AI chatbots in organizations. These insights can help organizations better address employees' desires and concerns when deploying AI for mental well-being.

June 2025

Student: Tongbin Qi

Co-working spaces are emerging as flexible workspaces for hybrid and remote workers. But despite their potential to bring people together, many co-working spaces prove functionally efficient but socially poor. This project explores how social interaction can be subtly integrated into the way we move, sit and collaborate in shared workspaces.

June 2025

Student: Justine Flemming and Kim van Erp

Coach: Bernard Grundlehner

This experimental study compares two wearables for their accuracy and usability in measuring stress via electrodermal activity (EDA). The goal is to investigate whether wearable stress monitors can be reliable and user-friendly tools for stress measurement in the workplace, and to assess their potential for use in preventive health care and stress management interventions.

June 2025

Student: Polly Gibbons

Organisation: High Tech Campus

Coach: Martin van Bendegom

Mental rest, such as psychological detachment and relaxation, is essential to recovering from work stress. This research maps the challenges experienced by employees at WPVH to mentally unwind in the workplace. The goal is to identify and understand the barriers and promoting factors that affect mental rest.

June 2025

Student: Jaynee Gomez

Organisation: JK Benelux en WPVH

The study focuses on understanding the limited use of the hydrojet bed within the Workplace Vitality Hub, designed to promote relaxation and vitality among employees. Key findings show that the work environment is not optimal, contributing to employees' reluctance to use the bed.

June 2025

Student: Emma van de Kerkhof

Organisation: High Tech Campus  

Coach: Martin van Bendegom

Work stress is a growing problem among office workers, caused by high workloads, tight deadlines and a disturbed work-life balance. This project explores how mindfulness can help reduce stress and improve well-being and productivity.

June 2025

Student: Tom Jonkers

Organisation: ONVZ

Coach: Martin van Bendegom

Many men grow up believing that showing vulnerable emotions is not masculine. This project investigates how these cultural norms contribute to the stigma surrounding seeking professional help. The goal of the research is to break this stigma and encourage men to be more emotionally open.

June 2025

Student: Lauren Koops

Organisation: WPVH

Coach: Frank Bauman

In this project, we investigate how photos and images can contribute to making mental health a more discussable topic in the workplace. By harnessing the power of visual communication, we aim to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and foster open dialogue.

Feb 2025

Students: Muaad Sucule

Organisation: WPVH

This research explores how to encourage employees to open about mental health in the workplace using written art as a communication tool. The focus is on overcoming the mental barriers and stigmas regarding mental health.

Feb 2025

Student: Merve Sari

Organisation: Ahrend and WPVH

Coach: Bernard Grundlehner

This project was carried out for Ahrend, with the goal of developing outdoor furniture for office workers. The balcony at the Workplace Vitality Hub serves as the test and reference location. The lack of functional outdoor workspaces reflects a broader challenge in today’s office environment.

Feb 2025

Students: Tijne Kieft, Imke Derks, Anish Nellore, Susan Oude Vrielink, Megan van Gerwen

Organisation: WPVH

Coach: Martin van Bendegom

High stress levels are becoming increasingly common in workplaces. Besides the beneficial effects of stress, too much stress can negatively impact mental health, physical health, and productivity. With SereniLily we aim to make people aware of their and their colleagues’ stress levels in workplaces.

Feb 2025

Student: Quin van Zoest

Organisation: ONVZ and WPVH

Coach: Eveline Kersten

This research aims to help ONVZ develop an intervention strategy to reduce occupational sedentariness and promote a healthy office environment.

It's time to break the habit! 

Feb 2025

Student: Mileymi González

Organisation: WPVH

Coach: Bernard Grundlehner

This research focuses on exploring strategies to enhance workplace happiness for students at the Workplace Vitality Hub by creating an environment that supports and encourages productivity. The study aims to identify specific factors, such as distractions or workflow inefficiencies, that hinder workplace happiness.

Feb 2025

Student: Wessel Antonissen

Organisation: WPVH

Coach: Bernard Grundlehner

This research focuses on the impact of lighting on well-being, particularly comparing NatureConnect with normal lighting. Poor lighting can cause headaches (50-70% of office workers), eye strain (90% of frequent computer users), and reduced melatonin production (up to 50%), leading to sleep disruption. NatureConnect aims to counteract these effects by incorporating natural elements.

Feb 2025

Student: Jonathan Claus 

Organisation: WPVH

Coach: Bernard Grundlehner

This research focuses on exploring one potential solution to reduce stress in office environments. While its effectiveness is not yet confirmed with the results provided within this study, this study aims to provide valuable insights into whether this intervention can pave the way toward healthier, happier workplaces.

Feb 2025

Student: Polly Gibbons

Organisation: High Tech Campus  

Coach: Martin van Bendegom

The research focuses on the challenges employees at WPVH face in achieving mental rest in the workplace. The aim is to identify and understand the barriers and facilitators influencing mental rest, considering personal and environmental factors. 

Feb 2025

Student: Kira Jennen

Organisation: Compass Group

Coach: Martin van Bendegom

This project focuses on encouraging healthier lunch choices at work by addressing psychological and environmental factors. In collaboration with Compass Group and the Workplace Vitality Hub, it aims to enhance employee well-being and productivity through better workplace nutrition.

Feb 2025

Student: Sam van der Vleuten

Organisation: MAAS

Coach: Martin van Bendegom

This project investigates how the coffee corner at MAAS contributes to social interaction and sustainability, by providing employees with a platform to share their interests during a weekly coffee moment.

June 2024

Student: Teyma Ahmed

Organisation: Ahrend  

Coach: Ida Damen 

This project focuses on promoting physical activity in the office through ‘walking meetings’ and reducing prolonged sitting, with the aim of improving the vitality of office workers.

June 2024

Student: Pim Bakels 

Coach: Eveline Kersten

The aim of this project is to increase psychological safety in the workplace through interventions that promote team cohesion and a safe working environment.

June 2024

Student: Lotte Vreede 

Coach: Nicole Ebben

This project focuses on reducing work stress among PhD candidates at Fontys by researching the causes of stress and developing an intervention based on literature and research among the target group.

June 2024

Student: Derya Coskun

Coach: Eveline Kersten

This project explored how team development could be integrated into supervisors' routines. Despite time constraints to fully implement the intervention, the project helped supervisors improve teamwork and better understand each other's strengths and skills.

June 2024

Student: Anthony Prince

Coach: Ida Damen

This project focused on improving ‘walking meetings’ through a prototype that takes AI-based notes. The prototype consisted of a tablet holder linked to Otter.ai with wireless microphones and a walking stick with Bluetooth button.

June 2024

Student: Thijmen Ramaekers

Organisation: MAAS

Coach: Martin van Bendegom

This project investigated the health benefits of adequate hydration through water drinking and the impact of an Aquablu Water Dispenser. The results showed that the introduction of Aquablu led to increased water intake, which can improve overall health and productivity.

June 2024

Student: Arian Ettefaghpour

Organisation: Ahrend

Coach: Ida Damen

Loonar is a revolutionary piece of furniture designed to promote relaxation and recovery in the workplace. The furniture piece is inspired by Somaesthetic Appreciation Design and the zero gravity position.

June 2024

Student: Yosja S. Visser
Organisatie: Ahrend
Coach: Ida Damen

This project focused on optimizing the acoustics in Qabins, closed workplaces within offices. By conducting simulations, it was investigated how noise pollution could be reduced without compromising ventilation, resulting in a better working environment.

June 2024

Studenten: Sultan Başar en Lieke Hermsen
Organisation: JK Benelux
Coaches: Bernard Grundlehner en Jasper Otting

This project focused on breaking the taboo surrounding mental health in the workplace. By integrating a hydrojet bed in a quiet space and a therapeutic chatbot, it was shown that employee stress and concentration levels improved.

June 2024

Student: Noah Ramautar
Organisation: TU/e Industrial Engineering
Coaches: Bernard Grundlehner en Ida Damen

This project investigated how smart technologies in the office influence the vitality of employees. Although the differences were not statistically significant, a positive correlation was found between awareness of smart technologies and employee vitality and resilience.

June 2024

Student: Dewi Berkhof
Coaches: Bernard Grundlehner en Ida Damen

This project aimed to create awareness about stress levels by visually displaying data from wearables. It developed an animation in which birds fly in different patterns depending on the measured collective stress level, which promotes stress recognition.

June 2024

Student: Chavez Tuankotta
Coach: Eveline Kersten

This project focused on reducing noise pollution in open office spaces. The underlying causes of noise pollution were identified through literature and target group research. The intervention included a social norms workshop supported by a poster, aimed at raising awareness and changing behavior.

June 2024

Student: Julia Brekelmans
Coach: Eveline Kersten

This project investigated how students experience psychological safety. It developed a toolbox of team-building activities and a decision tree to select these activities, creating an environment where students feel safe to be vulnerable and collaborate.

June 2024

Student: Elenor Aarts
Coach: Eveline Kersten

This project focused on reducing stress among students by teaching effective coping strategies. A training and worksheet with tips and a priority matrix were developed to help students reduce stress and tackle procrastination.

June 2024

Student: Nika Zoethout
Organisation: Compass Group
Coach: Martin van Bendegom

This project investigated the eating habits and food preferences of employees on the south side of the High Tech Campus. What can improve the lunch experience and increase employee satisfaction?

June 2024

Student: Seren Altay
Coach: Eveline Kersten

This project focused on promoting collaboration between students from different disciplines by stimulating informal learning activities. The goal was to create an environment in which students feel safer to be vulnerable and actively contribute to team development.

June 2024