Touchscreens and touch interfaces are all the rage – but is this a people-centred movement?

Arguably the strongest push for the use of touchscreens is the updatability of them – with a firmware update the UI can be changed significantly.

But there are also strong marketing pressures as it is a common belief that touchscreens make a product feel more modern and innovative.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the car, where touchscreens increasingly dominate despite very good reasons to doubt their value to the driver