I think there are three general lessons from Sugie's work.
But Sugie anticipated these concerns and addressed them in her design(Sugie 2014, 2016).
However, Sugie found that, on average, her participants' work experiences
were informal, temporary, and sporadic.
Sugie's data collection with a vulnerable population,
particularly the passive data collection, might raise some ethical concerns.
Measurement approaches that deploy surveys every few months
miss enormous amounts of the dynamics in their lives(Sugie 2016).
I think that because of her thoughtful approach, Sugie's project provides a valuable model to other researchers.
All of this data collection, particularly the
passive data collection, raises some ethical questions, but Sugie's design handled them well.
Sugie received meaningful informed consent from each participant for this data collection,
used appropriate security protections, and enabled participants to turn off the geographic tracking.
Therefore, Sugie used her surveys to collect data about the emotional state of participants-
an internal state that is not easily estimated from behavioral data.