Semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) cores for use in portable electronic sensors and integrated electronic sensors for measuring, interpreting, and recording parameters and data related to the movement, displacement, and orientation of a human body or part of a body for the purpose of bio-mechanical analysis of human movement; Semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) cores for analyzing and monitoring human movements for use in studying the biomechanics of human motor activity; Semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) cores for recording, transmission, processing or reproduction of gesture interaction data to examine and measure movements, internal and external forces acting on the human body, and the effects produced by these forces and/or movements; electronic motion detectors for detecting events and parameters linked to human movement for use in studying the biomechanics of human motor activity; Semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) cores for monitoring human body movements and processing the measure of information relative to those movements; software for use in mobile phones, personal electronic assistants, and navigation devices that creates, manages, and updates a database that measures, analyzes and reports human body movements