8. Glossary

Actimétrie; actimetry

A set of metrological techniques, based on electronics, information technology and telematics, used to quantify movements during an individual's activity in his or her living environment.

Sequential encoding; run-length encoding

The run-length encoding of a character sequence consists in preceding a repeating pattern with its number of repetitions. For example, if the sequence s is 6NBNBEEAADGAIADGI, its Run-Length Encoding (RLE) is equal to RLE(s) = 62NB2E2A1D1G1A1I1A1D1G1I, i.e. the sequence s with its pattern repetition coefficients.

ODROID console; ODROID console

Called Odroid for Open + Android, this handheld console features a Samsung S5PC100 board running an ARM Cortex – 8 833 Mhz processor.

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