This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on
Collaboration Technologies CollabTech 2016 held in Kanazawa Japan in September 2016. The 16
revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers and a keynote were carefully
reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics:
cross-cultural collaboration learning support systems social networking rescue and health
support real and virtual collaboration.
