WhoLoDancE: Deliverable 9.4 - Quality assurance guidelines

This document is designed to give guidance on assuring quality in planning, achieving, testing, and refining
for each area of the WhoLoDancE project. Although all the areas are closely linked together, the requirements and standard procedures are in many respects different. From a Quality Assurance point of view, it is important to note that the main work of the WhoLoDancE project can be divided into three sections:

• Work Section 1: Gathering a Collection of Dance Motion making use of Advanced Motion Capture Technology and building Multimodal Rendering, Holographic/volumetric displays for the learning and teaching of dance.
• Work Section 2: Developing a Database with Data Analytics and Advanced Similarity Search Functionalities making use of innovative Semantic and Emotional Representation Models applied to the data acquired.
• Work Section 3: Managing the Work and collaboration between the partners and effectively communicate and disseminate the project outcomes.

The main purposes of these guidelines are:

• to define the means of satisfying the objectives for the quality assurance process, and to establish the activities and resources (human organisation, methods and tools) to carry out them;
• to provide monitoring of all activities, to assure that the project will meet its specified requirements and will be fit-for-use.

This guidelines document defines the activities and resources necessary to ensure that the quality requirements of the project are met. It defines quality assurance guidelines and quality assurance activities. It also defines policies for identifying threats on the project and for implementing corrective actions. These guidelines recognise that, with the diversity of the participating project partners, many different quality assurance and control systems are already in place - the guidelines do not, therefore, seek to override existing procedures. This document is applicable to the WhoLoDancE project until its end unless new updates of these QAG are issued in the course of the project.