Fabric Electrode Monitoring of Dynamic and Static ECG Signal and Comfort Performance

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

I enjoyed reading the paper. The authors have presented an interesting article about a Fabric Electrode Monitoring of Dynamic and Static ECG Signal and Comfort Performance.

Abstract, overview

The abstract is a concise description of the work. The introduction is well structured, and it covers all the concepts investigated in the methodological part. The previous work is well presented and integrated. I consider that this work brings added value in the field and the specific objectives of the manuscript are well related to the previous work developed in this domain.

Methodology

The research design used is appropriate in order to answer the research questions proposed by the authors. The methods are described properly. The results are clearly presented and are in relation to the concepts investigated.

Discussion and conclusions

The discussions are clear and concise. The conclusions are strongly related to the findings of the research work.

Format and style

All the format and style features were respected and are compliant with the requirements.

References

The format of the reference list fixes well to the specified format.

Plagiarism and any other ethical concerns about this study

I do not have any potential conflict of interest with regards to this paper.

Reply: The authors thank the reviewer for his/her overall positive feedback.

Despite the good work done, there is still some room for improvement, as follows:

I think some more literatures should be added. Besides the mentioned systems there are several others (like cost-effect BCI, eye-tracking, VR/AR) which are applied nowadays. It would be good to see the "effect of different web-based media" content on "human brain waves", as well as the additional applications of brainwave-based control like in examine the effect of different web-based media on human brain waves. It would improve the quality of the publication to mention the relationship between a cognitive psychological attention test and the attention levels determined by a BCI systems such as in an examination and comparison of the EEG based attention test with CPT and TOVA. In addition to BCI systems, mentioning other important human-computer interaction eye movement tracking would also improve quality, as such systems can be used in the analysis of programming technologies such as LINQ and algorithms, thus enabling, for example, cognition load or source code, algorithm description tools readability testing like in measuring cognition load using eye-tracking parameters based on algorithm description tools, in clean and dirty code comprehension by eye-tracking based evaluation using GP3 eye tracker and in analyse the readability of LINQ Code using an eye-tracking-based evaluation or VR in hand controlled mobile robot applied in virtual environment, or in a review of human–computer interaction and virtual reality research fields in cognitive InfoCommunications.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

Thanks for your comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Fabric Electrode Monitoring of Dynamic and Static ECG Signal and Comfort Performance” (coatings-2118199). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as for guiding our research. Thank you very much for your affirmation of this research work. Thank you for your suggestion. We have added the latest references to the introduction of the manuscript. However, we believe that the content of your comments is inconsistent with the content of our manuscript.

Sincerely yours,

Dr. Hongying Yang

Reviewer 2 Report

In the manuscript, the authors reported conductive fabric electrodes of different materials and structures to determine the comfort and electrochemical performance of the four fabric electrodes and the quality of the collected dynamic and static ECG signals. The article topic is intriguing and promising in the area. Overall, the article structure and content are suitable for the journal Coatings. I am pleased to send you minor-level comments, but some flaws need to be corrected before publication.

Please consider these suggestions as listed below.

1.      The abstract seems to be fine. Please add one more introductory line of your objective

at beginning of the abstract to highlight the core idea.

2.      In the introduction section, authors should include more recent references.

3.      Authors should put symbols of physical values in italic throughout the manuscript.

4.      In the results section, the obtained results are commented too generally on. The authors should provide more in-depth discussion and compare the results with similar studies. 

5.      The stability and reusability of the fabric electrodes should be discussed further.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

Thanks for your comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Fabric Electrode Monitoring of Dynamic and Static ECG Signal and Comfort Performance” (coatings-2118199). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as for guiding our research. Here are our responses to the comments and remarks of the reviewers:

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

I accept this paper in present form.