Motorists face a potentially deadly struggle to multitask when using dashboard touch screens, warns new research. Once the preserve of buttons and knobs, tod a y's car dashboards are increasingly home ...

Once, when automobile dashboards were festooned with knobs and dials, it was relatively easy and safe to “feel” your way to the right control without taking your eyes off the road. Dashboard touch ...

Don’t take your eyes off the road to read new research from the University of Washington. In partnership with Toyota Research Institute, UW researchers are exploring how modern touch screens in cars ...

Nav Canada has begun operating a new air traffic control tower in a smaller city which has touch-screen technology, replacing paper strips that were used to provide flight data to and between ATC ...

Hewlett-Packard is launching a series of new products today, including some long-awaited touchscreen laptop computers. The highlight of today's 10 product introductions are laptops with multi-touch ...

Apple is working on its first MacBook Pro with a touch-screen display, after years of arguing the technology should be saved for tablets, according to a new report. The revamped MacBooks – code-named ...

New research from the UW and the Toyota Research Institute explores how drivers trade off between cognitive tasks, driving and using the touch screen. Researchers placed participants in a driving ...