Chromaheat AI Heating Textile by Ching Lee, Jeanne Tan and Jun Jong Tan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Wearable Technologies Design Competition Category.
BronzeWearable Technology· 2025
Chromaheat AI Heating Textile
by Ching Lee, Jeanne Tan and Jun Jong Tan
Client: Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Design (AiDLab)
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Wearable Technology Category
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About Chromaheat AI Heating Textile
Chromaheat AI is an intelligent heating jacket that utilizes AI-driven temperature regulation and thermochromic yarn to provide adaptive warmth and real time visual feedback . Its self trained AI system adjusts heating based on age, gender, and environmental conditions, optimizing thermal comfort across different temperatures, humidity levels, and wind speeds. The color changing yarn offers visible heat indicators, enhancing safety, usability, and monitoring. Designed for daily wear, its energy efficient automated control makes it ideal for healthcare applications and smart textiles.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Chromaheat AI Heating Textile is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Chromaheat AI Heating Textile is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Chromaheat AI Heating Textile splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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AI-Powered Smart Textile Innovation
We develop cutting-edge AI-powered smart textiles that revolutionize thermal comfort through intelligent temperature regulation. Our patented ChromaHeat technology integrates thermochromic yarns with machine learning, creating adaptive heating systems ideal for healthcare, sports, and consumer wearables. Partner with our award-winning research team to license or co-develop next-generation smart fabrics.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The main principle behind my design is human-centered innovation —creating solutions that enhance comfort, usability, and well-being by integrating design with advanced technology. The core idea of my work is to bridge design and science , particularly through smart textiles that respond to real-life needs.
My inspiration often comes from scientific systems and natural processes . For example, the concept behind ChromaHeat AI was inspired by fuzzy logic-based temperature control systems used in air conditioners. This led me to explore how similar principles, enhanced by AI, could be applied to e-textiles to improve personal thermal comfort. By combining data-driven decision-making with responsive materials, I aim to design products that are both intelligent and empathetic—capable of adapting to people and their environments.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The main focus in designing ChromaHeat AI was to develop a smart, responsive textile system that can intelligently regulate temperature based on both environmental conditions and individual user profiles. Our goal was to achieve personalized thermal comfort through the integration of artificial intelligence, conductive materials, and woven fabric structures.
What we wanted to achieve with this work was a functional, user-centered solution that goes beyond traditional textile applications—something that adapts in real-time, improves well-being, and reflects the future of wearable technology. We aimed to bridge the gap between research and real-life use by creating a system that is not only technically advanced but also wearable, functional, and accessible.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Our future plans for the ChromaHeat AI design focus on enhancing its functionality and bringing it closer to market readiness . We aim to expand and diversify the dataset used to train the AI model, which will improve its ability to provide personalized thermal regulation for a wider range of users.
In addition, we are currently exploring the development of a cooling function , so the system can offer both heating and cooling capabilities —creating a comprehensive temperature-regulating solution for e-textiles. Our long-term goal is to finalize the product and commercialize it , making intelligent thermal-wear a practical and impactful option for everyday use in fashion, healthcare, and outdoor applications.
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- ChromaHeat AI is an intelligent heating jacket that integrates AI-driven temperature regulation with thermochromic yarn, providing adaptive warmth and real-time color-changing temperature feedback. The self-trained AI system adjusts heating based on age, gender, and environmental factors, optimizing thermal comfort across varying temperatures, humidity levels, and wind speeds. Designed for everyday use, its energy-efficient control makes it ideal for healthcare technology.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Materials: Silver-coated conductive yarn, thermochromic yarn, polymeric optical fiber, cotton.
Technology: AI-driven regulation, ANN model, Bluetooth, thermocouples MAX6675, ambient sensors BME680, FS3000.
Color Transitions: Pale purple to hot pink at 30 degrees Celsius in lit conditions; blue to yellow to red from 30 to 40 degrees Celsius and above in dark conditions.
Dimensions: International Male M (Chest: 970 mm, Length: 680 mm, Sleeve: 630 mm). - Tags
- intelligent textile, heating textile, temperature control, thermochromic textile and healthcare
- Production Technology
- ChromaHeat AI is fabricated using woven and embroidered thermochromic yarn and polymeric optical fiber, combined with silver-coated conductive heating yarn, enabling real-time temperature visualization with high brightness in both lit and dark environments. It features a self-trained ANN-driven system, utilizing data from 50 wearability test subjects to determine optimal heating temperatures for intelligent temperature regulation across diverse users.
- Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge was training the AI model from scratch, as no publicly available datasets existed on optimal heating temperatures for thermal comfort across different users. To validate the concept, we recruited 50 subjects to test heating levels from 40 degree celsius to 60 degree celsius, identifying their preferred comfort temperatures. Additionally, constraints on age groups and testing conditions posed limitations, requiring careful data collection to ensure accuracy and applicability.
- Research
- This research developed AI-driven heating e-textiles for personalized thermal comfort and healthcare safety through real-time temperature visualization. Data from 50 participants was collected to train an ANN model, which determines optimal heating temperatures from 40 to 50 degrees Celsius with a mean squared error of 5.083, demonstrating a high correlation between predicted and actual comfort levels. The results confirm enhanced thermal comfort and benefits for healthcare applications.
- Inspiration
- Existing heating e-textiles, such as Bluetooth-controlled systems, have advanced textile technology but still lack intelligent adaptation, requiring manual operation to adjust heating levels. They offer limited heat indication, typically displayed on small switches, making it difficult for users to monitor temperature changes. ChromaHeat AI was developed to address these limitations, aiming to enhance human well-being through smart heating textiles that improve comfort, safety, and efficiency.
- Project Duration
- The project began in January 2021 and was completed in December 2024 in Hong Kong. The first prototype was exhibited at Sensory Stitches, Intelligent, Intuitive, Illuminative at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, China, from September 8 to 13, 2022.
- Operation Flow
- ChromaHeat AI intuitively adjusts its heating levels using an AI-driven system that responds to the wearer's age, gender, and surroundings. Once worn, built-in sensors track environmental conditions and send data to the intelligent model, which fine-tunes warmth for maximum comfort and efficiency . Its color-changing and light-emitting features provide instant visual feedback , helping users monitor temperature shifts in real time, ensuring safety and ease of use in daily life.
- Patents
- Patent Filed. Patent Application No. 2308943HK01. Lee, C., Tan, J., & Tan, J. J. 2023. China National Intellectual Property Administration. Jurisdiction: China. Filed on 10 October 2023.
- Team Members
- Ching Lee
Jeanne Tan
Jun Jong Tan
Wing Shan Yu
Hiu Ting Tang
Wing Chung Wong
Chi Yuen Hui
Shui Wing Ng - Image Credits
- Main Image: Photographer Henry Yeung – Heating position on the upper back of the body, 2024.
Optional Image #1: Photographer Chun Hei Lee – Integrated sensors in pocket with a small size, 2024.
Optional Image #2: Photographer Chun Hei Lee – Illuminative effect in a dark environment, 2022.
Optional Image #3: Photographer Chun Hei Lee – Jacket providing thermal comfort, 2024.
Optional Image #4: Photographer Chun Hei Lee – Minimalist and sporty design , 2024.
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