AI-Enabled Playful Enhancement of Resilience and Self-Efficacy with Psychological Learning Theory

The outbreak of COVID19 has caused a global public health emergency with multifaceted severe consequences for people’s lives and their mental health. Distress and anxiety are normal responses to such extreme circumstances. The Austrian research project AIRefit aims at a radically innovative app prototype representing a digital care centre (i) to reinforce resilience by engaging into activities to prevent from depressive symptoms, severe anxiety and stress levels, (ii) to apply playful AI and sensorenabled assessment of mental health, (iii) to capture daily lifestyle data for a comprehensive contextual assessment from nonobtrusive wearables, and (iv) to adaptively promote selfefficacy of the individual, based on scientific psychological learning theory.